Quotemeal for Tuesday, December 29, 2009

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity."

— Stephen Charnock —

"To be forged upon the anvil of God's purpose, to be at once His hammer, His tongs, and His molten iron; to hear words that rend the heart, see visions that..."

— Thom Lemmons —

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own..."

— J. I. Packer —