Quotemeal for Friday, November 14, 2003

"Jesus does his best work at such moments. Just when the truth about life sinks in, his truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side."

— Max Lucado

More Quotemeal

"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility."

— John Climacus —

"Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction."

— A. W. Tozer —

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —