Quotemeal for Sunday, February 16, 2020

"God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."

— Coventry Patmore

More Quotemeal

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.||"

— Abraham Lincoln —

"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

— Winston Churchill —

"A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him."

— Lyof N. Tolstoy —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —