Quotemeal for Sunday, December 8, 2024

"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

"The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales."

— John R. W. Stott —

"The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God."

— Andrew Murray —

"It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."

— Theodore Roosevelt —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —