Quotemeal for Thursday, May 19, 2011

"It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."

— John Chrysostom —

"No rock is so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

— Lord Tennyson Alfred —

"It is easier to ridicule than commend."

— Thomas Fuller —

"The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down."

— George Whitefield —