Quotemeal for Thursday, April 27, 2006

"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden."

— Corrie ten Boom —

"Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last."

— George Swinnock —

"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had..."

— Robert L. Short —

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —