Quotemeal for Wednesday, August 17, 1949

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

— Charles H. Spurgeon

More Quotemeal

"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own independence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth announced in....."

— Abraham Lincoln —

"He became what we are that he might make us what he is."

— Athanasius of Alexandria —

"The future is purchased at the price of vision in the present."

— Samuel Johnson —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —