Quotemeal for Saturday, March 26, 2016

"Above all the grace and gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

— Francis of Assisi

More Quotemeal

"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

— William Shakespeare —

"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had..."

— Robert L. Short —

"If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see..."

— John Newton —