Quotemeal for Thursday, December 1, 2005

"Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly."

— Emil Brunner

More Quotemeal

"If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."

— John the Short —

"Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots,....."

— John Bunyan —