Quotemeal for Friday, October 31, 2008

"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold."

— Thomas Brooks

More Quotemeal

"The modern church rejects the outcasts of society where as these very outcasts were the very ones who were drawn to Jesus."

— Philip Yancey —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."

— John Donne —