Quotemeal for Monday, July 15, 1963

"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."

— François de Sales

More Quotemeal

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales —

"What he's been creating, since the first beat of your heart, is a living, breathing, priceless work of art."

— Steven Curtis Chapman —

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —