Quotemeal for Friday, October 2, 1959

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity."

— John Flavel

More Quotemeal

"When a person's faith seems to collapse without warning, one can be sure it has been the result of inner conflicts — the termites of disobedience."

— Quinton J. Everest —

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —