Quotemeal for Sunday, May 1, 1960

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

— William R. Inge —

"Above all the grace and gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

— Francis of Assisi —

"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

— Brother Lawrence —