Quotemeal for Monday, September 8, 1947

"There is a big difference between mishearing and hearing only what we want to hear, right? We, the people of God, seem to have chronic 'itching ears,' and we can usually find somebody to scratch till we say 'Aaahh' (2 Tim. 4:3). Given the option, we will usually choose bigger barns to serve ourselves over bigger hearts to serve others (Luke 12:13-21)."

— Scotty Smith

More Quotemeal

"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."

— John of the Cross —

"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"The future is purchased at the price of vision in the present."

— Samuel Johnson —

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."

— Robert Louis Stevenson —