Quotemeal for Thursday, August 7, 2003

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt."

— Richard S. Emrich

More Quotemeal

"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief."

— Leslie Weatherhead —

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find Him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear to God."

— Ron Hansen —