Quotemeal: Oct. 2nd, 2025

Thursday, October 2, 2025

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
— William Shedd

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"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
— John Owen —
"When you come to the bottom, you find God."
— Neville Talbot —
"The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second."
— Florence Allshorn —
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

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Illustration of William Shedd — "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.

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