Quotemeal for Tuesday, March 30, 2004

"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."

— Johannes Eckhart

More Quotemeal

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

— Goethe —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare....."

— Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds —