Quotemeal for Wednesday, April 9, 2003

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"Do you wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to your neighbor."

— John Chrysostom —

"Satan never sells his poisons naked — he always gilds them before he vends them."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

— Phillips Brooks —

"We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are...."

— A. W. Tozer —