Quotemeal for Friday, June 26, 2015

"A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help."

— Dorotheus of Gaza

More Quotemeal

"We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are...."

— A. W. Tozer —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."

— G. K. Chesterton —

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

— Phillips Brooks —