Quotemeal for Thursday, May 1, 2008

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions."

— Author Unknown —

"The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired."

— John of the Cross —

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —