Quotemeal for Friday, March 10, 2006

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond."

— Phillips Brooks

More Quotemeal

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no....."

— Meister Eckhart —

"God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them."

— Max Lucado —

"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 —