Quotemeal: Feb. 19th, 2026

Thursday, February 19, 2026

"Dear Lord, either quiet the waves or lift me above them; it's too late to learn to swim."
— Mary Crowley

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"No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity."
— H. A. Ironside —
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty and..."
— Rick Warren —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Mary Crowley — "Dear Lord, either quiet the waves or lift me above them; it's too late to learn to swim."

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