Quotemeal for Monday, December 11, 2006

"Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve."

— Douglas Groothuis

More Quotemeal

"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life."

— Eugene Peterson —

"The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck blackberries."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —

"Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes..."

— John Owen —