Quotemeal for Monday, December 8, 2008

"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 had joy, and He prays "that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.""

— Oswald Chambers

More Quotemeal

"Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe. God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on..."

— Warren Wiersbe —

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

— Francis Bacon —

"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"

— Thomas à Kempis —

"God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking...."

— A. W. Tozer —