Quotemeal for Saturday, May 10, 1958

"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

"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

— Francis de Sales —

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"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 —