Quotemeal for Tuesday, December 9, 2003

"Real encouragement occurs when words are spoken from a heart of love to another's recognized fear."

— Larry Crabb

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 —

"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not..."

— G. K. Chesterton —

"Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,|And back of the flour is the mill;|And back of the mill is the wheat, and the shower|And the sun, and the Father's will."

— Maltbie D. Babcock —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —