Quotemeal for Tuesday, November 29, 1955

"Those of us who are most familiar with the Spirit's promises are in the greatest danger. ... familiarity may not breed contempt, but it takes the edge off awe ... promises that drop the jaws or widen the eyes of newcomers but provoke no more than a raised eyebrow in the old-timers who have ceased to dream."

— Jim McGuiggan

More Quotemeal

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

— Benjamin Franklin —

"There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself."

— Abraham Lincoln —

"Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly...."

— William Law —

"Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there...."

— John Irving —