Quotemeal for Saturday, August 19, 2023

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen

More Quotemeal

"Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway."

— Carlton Pearson —

"He came from God, all the apostles believed, in a sense in which no other came; does it not follow that he came in a way in which no other came?"

— James Denney —

"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 —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —