Quotemeal for Monday, December 17, 2012

"It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world."

— John Calvin

More Quotemeal

"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."

— J. I. Packer —

"People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for....."

— George MacDonald —

"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."

— Abraham Joshua Heschel —

"True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase,..."

— Henry Scougal —