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

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

— Søren Kierkegaard —

"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and....."

— Thomas Brooks —

"Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly...."

— William Law —