Quotemeal for Wednesday, May 18, 2011

"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."

— Alphonsus Liguori

More Quotemeal

"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth."

— Malcolm Muggeridge —

"The heart of a child is the most precious of God's creation. Never break it. At all costs, never break it."

— Joseph L. Whitten —

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be....."

— John Calvin —

"On days when life is difficult and I feel overwhelmed, as I do fairly often, it helps to remember in my prayers that all God requires of me is to trust Him and...."

— Bruce Larson —