Quotemeal for Tuesday, April 27, 1954

"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."

— Frederick Buechner —

"The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God."

— Andrew Murray —

"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

— Brother Lawrence —

"Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so....."

— Thomas à Kempis —