Quotemeal for Saturday, July 16, 2005

"Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe. God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on our toes — and also on our knees."

— Warren Wiersbe

More Quotemeal

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

— Mark Finley —

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."

— Samuel Johnson —

"Real encouragement occurs when words are spoken from a heart of love to another's recognized fear."

— Larry Crabb —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —