Quotemeal for Tuesday, December 25, 2007

"The great challenge left to us is to cut through all the glitz and glam of the season that has grown increasingly secular and commercial, and be reminded of the beauty of the One who is Christmas."

— Bill Crowder

More Quotemeal

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —

"No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."

— John of the Cross —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —