Quotemeal for Saturday, December 22, 1945

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

— Benjamin Franklin

More Quotemeal

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."

— William Law —

"If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns."

— Author Unknown —

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work...."

— Teresa of Avila —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —