Quotemeal for Saturday, May 16, 2009

"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."

— John Milton

More Quotemeal

"The streets of hell are paved with good intentions."

— Mark Twain —

"Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no....."

— Meister Eckhart —

"I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath."

— David Brainerd —

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —