Quotemeal for Tuesday, March 30, 2004

"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."

— Johannes Eckhart

More Quotemeal

"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is...."

— Hazlitt —

"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed round our incompleteness ..."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —

"Jesus gave history a new beginning. In every land He is at home...His birthday is kept across the world. His death-day has set a gallows against every city..."

— George Buttrick —