Quotemeal for Friday, April 6, 2018

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's."

— William Barclay

More Quotemeal

"But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea."

— William Langford —

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

— Victor Hugo —

"Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there."

— Catherine of Siena —

"One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work..."

— Tim Hansel —