Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."

— Lewis Carroll

More Quotemeal

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

— Cicero —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."

— John Owen —

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."

— Robert Louis Stevenson —