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

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

— George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon —

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's successes."

— Oscar Wilde —

"Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may -..."

— Martin Luther —