Quotemeal for Thursday, December 29, 1949

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in words alone,but in every leaf in springtime."

— Martin Luther —

"I believe a very large majority of church-goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."

— John Donne —

"If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible..."

— William Barclay —