Quotemeal for Monday, August 8, 2011

"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."

— François de Sales

More Quotemeal

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

— Mark Finley —

"Miss Christ and you miss all."

— Thomas Brooks —

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —