Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 24, 2007

"Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone."

— Oswald Chambers

More Quotemeal

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence."

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —

"Make two homes for yourself my daughter. One actual home and another spiritual home, which you carry with you always."

— Catherine of Siena —

"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."

— Rudyard Kipling —

"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 —