Quotemeal for Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"Above all the grace and gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

— Francis of Assisi

More Quotemeal

"I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be..."

— Jim Elliot —

"Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it."

— Karl Barth —

"Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works."

— John Calvin —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —