Quotemeal for Wednesday, September 16, 1959

"In some ways, it's those of us who are most familiar with the Spirit's promises who are in the greatest danger. Someone has said that familiarity may not breed contempt, but it takes the edge off of awe. Something like this is true about the rich texts and glory-filled promises that drop the jaws or widen the eyes of newcomers but provoke no more than a raised eyebrow in the old-timers who have ceased to dream."

— Jim McGuiggan

More Quotemeal

"If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding..."

— Os Guinness —

"What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him."

— Meister Eckhart —

"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind."

— Ralph W. Sockman —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —