Quotemeal for Friday, January 19, 2018

"Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an "accident," but a divine choice."

— Henri Nouwen

More Quotemeal

"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."

— John Owen —

"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 —

"Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach."

— R. W. Dale —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —