Quotemeal for Saturday, March 21, 2020

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales

More Quotemeal

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish."

— Ovid —

"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 —

"Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to....."

— François Fénelon —

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own..."

— J. I. Packer —