Quotemeal for Thursday, March 21, 2002

"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them."

— C. S. Lewis

More Quotemeal

"We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the....."

— Jean Pierre de Caussade —

"Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"The refiner is never very far from the mouth of the furnace when His gold is in the fire."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Spirit, is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion."

— J. C. Ryle —