Quotemeal for Monday, August 30, 2004

"We take care of our possessions for our children. But of the children themselves we take no care at all. What an absurdity is this! Form the soul of thy son aright, and the rest will be added hereafter."

— John Chrysostom

More Quotemeal

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence."

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —

"Those who pursue the way of faith and absolute abandonment have neither relish nor liberty for any other path; all else constrains and embarrasses them."

— Madame Guyon —

"Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled."

— Irenaeus —

"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 —