Quotemeal for Friday, August 19, 1955

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen

More Quotemeal

"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own independence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth announced in....."

— Abraham Lincoln —

"The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God."

— Andrew Murray —

"Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint, and he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is."

— Blaise Pascal —

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."

— Frederick Buechner —