Quotemeal: Feb. 19th, 2026

Thursday, February 19, 2026

"Dear Lord, either quiet the waves or lift me above them; it's too late to learn to swim."
— Mary Crowley

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"The best is yet to be."
— John Wesley —
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
— Thornton Wilder —
"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."
— Charles Stanley —
"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."
— J. I. Packer —

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Illustration of Mary Crowley — "Dear Lord, either quiet the waves or lift me above them; it's too late to learn to swim."

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