Quotemeal for Thursday, December 24, 2015

"[Jesus] left because of you. He laid his security down with his hammer. ... Since he could bear your sins more easily than he could bear the thought of your hopelessness, he chose to leave. It wasn't easy. Leaving the carpentry shop never has been."

— Max Lucado

More Quotemeal

"We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very essence of the gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

"Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ."

— H.A. Ironside —

"God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules... are fixed in His own character.... Thus, when we sin we break the law of God... in...."

— Francis Schaeffer —