Quotemeal for Thursday, January 20, 1955

"It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience."

— George Eliot

More Quotemeal

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence."

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —

"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own..."

— Dorotheus of Gaza —

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —