Quotemeal for Friday, February 18, 1949

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

— Thomas Jefferson

More Quotemeal

"That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing."

— Martin Luther —

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."

— Henry Emerson Fosdick —

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."

— Frederick Buechner —