Quotemeal for Saturday, June 2, 2007

"It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms."

— C. S. Lewis

More Quotemeal

"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"He who gives you the day will also give you the things necessary for the day."

— Gregory of Nyssa —

"Money is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."

— P. T. Barnum —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —