Quotemeal for Thursday, December 29, 2005

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of|God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace....."

— Jerry Bridges —

"Christ, by highest heaven adored,|Christ, the everlasting Lord,|Late in time behold him come,|Offspring of a virgin's womb.|Veiled in flesh the Godhead..."

— Charles Wesley —

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

— Charles F. Banning —

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."

— Matthew Henry —