Quotemeal for Thursday, August 19, 1954

"Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."

— Jeremiah Burroughs

More Quotemeal

"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"To prepare our hearts for Christmas, we must cultivate the spirit of expectancy."

— Handel H. Brown —

"The gospel is so simple that simple children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches."

— Charles Hodge —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —