Quotemeal for Friday, December 20, 2024

"The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity - hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory - because at the Father's will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross."

— J. I. Packer

More Quotemeal

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

— William R. Inge —

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk."

— Francis of Assisi —

"Why do so many people have struggles when it comes to prayer? ... Men and women were originally created to desire communion with God. But the effects of sin..."

— Gordon McDonald —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —