Quotemeal for Thursday, March 21, 2024

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales

More Quotemeal

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard —

"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity..."

— John Tillotson —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —