Quotemeal for Monday, July 9, 2007

"Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good."

— John Tillotson

More Quotemeal

"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God."

— Brother Lawrence —

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— Matthew Henry —

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right..."

— Lesslie Newbigin —

"For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered."

— Nancy Parker Brummett —