Quotemeal for Friday, November 14, 2003

"Jesus does his best work at such moments. Just when the truth about life sinks in, his truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side."

— Max Lucado

More Quotemeal

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales —

"The Christian's hope for the future must have a sanctifying influence upon the present."

— D. Edmond Hiebert —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —