Quotemeal for Sunday, March 21, 2004

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales

More Quotemeal

"But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea."

— William Langford —

"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer."

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing —

"The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak..."

— Origen —

"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 —