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

"When a person's faith seems to collapse without warning, one can be sure it has been the result of inner conflicts — the termites of disobedience."

— Quinton J. Everest —

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

— Thomas Jefferson —

"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."

— Roger Williams —

"Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but...."

— Charles H. Brent —