Quotemeal for Saturday, May 1, 1948

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."

— Mother Teresa —

"Christ, by highest heaven adored,|Christ, the everlasting Lord,|Late in time behold him come,|Offspring of a virgin's womb.|Veiled in flesh the Godhead..."

— Charles Wesley —

"God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person — a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose...."

— Robert Hamill —

"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 —