Quotemeal for Wednesday, July 31, 2002

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."

— J. I. Packer

More Quotemeal

"Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy."

— William Blake —

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."

— George Eliot —

"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, "Yes, this is how I ought..."

— Rabbi Harold Kushner —

"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

— John Stott —