Quotemeal for Wednesday, February 20, 2008

"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

— J. H. Jowett

More Quotemeal

"I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

— Martin Luther —

"The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ....."

— Oswald Chambers —

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right..."

— Lesslie Newbigin —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —