Quotemeal for Friday, November 24, 2017

"God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules... are fixed in His own character.... Thus, when we sin we break the law of God... in the direction of destroying what we really are."

— Francis Schaeffer

More Quotemeal

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

— William Shedd —

"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect...."

— Edward Everett Hale —

"Obedience, pure and simple, opens up a pathway for the work of God."

— David Stevens —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —