Quotemeal for Saturday, May 1, 2004

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help."

— Henri Nouwen —

"Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers."

— Julian of Norwich —

"I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I..."

— John Newton —

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way..."

— William Penn —