Quotemeal for Sunday, April 27, 1958

"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

"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

— Aristotle —

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— Calvin Miller —

"Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up..."

— Elisabeth Elliot —