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

"Our Father dwells in tents as well as in temples, but His favorite abiding-place is in the hearts of mankind."

— J. Fred Jones —

"Look around the habitable world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

— John Dryden —

"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, "Yes, this is how I ought..."

— Rabbi Harold Kushner —

"We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master."

— J. I. Packer —