Quotemeal for Thursday, January 1, 2009

"O God, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need Thee."

— John Donne

More Quotemeal

"It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the End of our journey, He is also at every stopping place."

— Elisabeth Elliot —

"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."

— J. I. Packer —

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen —

"'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light..."

— John Selden —