Quotemeal for Thursday, January 23, 2014

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

— A. J. Gossip

More Quotemeal

"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."

— Swedish Proverb —

"If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has."

— Robert E. Harris —

"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."

— Roger Williams —

"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 —