Quotemeal for Friday, July 12, 2024

"It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in longing for the things that are not his."

— Bernard of Clairvaux

More Quotemeal

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —

"Live simply that others might simply live."

— Elizabeth Seaton —

"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes..."

— John Owen —