Quotemeal for Tuesday, August 21, 2018

"Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it you are bound forever to the Giver, and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like, Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give."

— E. Stanley Jones

More Quotemeal

"The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God."

— W. T. Richardson —

"The church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it."

— Jerome —

"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."

— François de Sales —

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked...."

— Catherine Marshall —