Quotemeal for Wednesday, April 9, 2003

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word or consolation in Scripture."

— D.L. Moody —

"Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world."

— Thomas Traherne —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than....."

— Frank Laubach —