Quotemeal for Monday, May 8, 2006

"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

More Quotemeal

"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"Persecution for righteousness' sake is what every child of God must expect."

— Charles Simeon —

"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had..."

— Robert L. Short —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —