Quotemeal for Monday, May 10, 1954

"Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer."

— Charles H. Brent

More Quotemeal

"Jesus Christ is a peacemaker. So, if we want to be God's children and Christ's disciples, we must be peacemakers too."

— John R. W. Stott —

"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."

— C. S. Lewis —

"We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach."

— Brooke Foss Wescott —

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way..."

— William Penn —