Quotemeal for Sunday, January 1, 1950

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

— Thomas Mann

More Quotemeal

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

— Abraham Lincoln —

"If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some folks must love the Church!"

— Gerald I. Teague —

"God will either give you what you ask, or something far better."

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —