Quotemeal for Friday, August 14, 2015

"I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am."

— John Newton

More Quotemeal

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace. It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

— Martin Luther —

"If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it."

— John Darby —

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without..."

— Thomas Jefferson —