Quotemeal for Thursday, August 26, 2004

"Christ was in agony in prayer, Luke 22:44. Many when they pray are rather in lethargy, than in an agony. When they are about the world they are all fire; when they are at prayer, they are all ice."

— Thomas Watson

More Quotemeal

"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."

— Henry Emerson Fosdick —

"On days when life is difficult and I feel overwhelmed, as I do fairly often, it helps to remember in my prayers that all God requires of me is to trust Him and...."

— Bruce Larson —