Quotemeal for Thursday, December 8, 2016

"The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a "happy Christian." Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prays "that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.""

— Oswald Chambers

More Quotemeal

"Character is what you are in the dark."

— Dwight L. Moody —

"Do you wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to your neighbor."

— John Chrysostom —

"We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples."

— John Piper —

"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 —