Quotemeal for Thursday, July 12, 1956

"It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in longing for the things that are not his."

— Bernard of Clairvaux

More Quotemeal

"The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales."

— John R. W. Stott —

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

— Dr. Caird —

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets...."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. ..."

— Charles Swindoll —