Quotemeal for Sunday, April 24, 2011

"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock....."

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne —

"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."

— John of the Cross —

"I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself."

— John Newton —

"Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so....."

— Thomas à Kempis —