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

"God often gives in one brief moment that which he has for a long time denied."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"A man leaves all kinds of footprints when he walks through life. Some you can see ... others are invisible, like the prints he leaves across other people's..."

— Margaret Lee Runbeck —

"Only those whose souls have struck the deepest notes of penitence can reach the highest notes of praise."

— Richard DeHaan —

"I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be..."

— Jim Elliot —