Quotemeal for Saturday, September 14, 1963

"You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!"

— Rick Warren

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 —

"If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some folks must love the Church!"

— Gerald I. Teague —

"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person,...."

— Francis Schaeffer —