Quotemeal for Monday, August 19, 1963

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen

More Quotemeal

"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk."

— Francis of Assisi —

"A man leaves all kinds of footprints when he walks through life. Some you can see ... others are invisible, like the prints he leaves across other people's..."

— Margaret Lee Runbeck —

"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 —