Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 9, 2008

"[When] Jesus Himself fasted, He was not fasting to repent or to bring His desires under control, of course, but to demonstrate His absolute dependence upon His Father."

— Peter C. Moore

More Quotemeal

"As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them."

— Charles H Spurgeon —

"Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead."

— John Ruskin —

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace. It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

— Martin Luther —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —