Quotemeal for Wednesday, August 8, 1956

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus

More Quotemeal

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."

— Billy Wilder —

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

— Henry David Thoreau —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"The most glorious promises of God are generally fulfilled in such a wondrous manner that He steps forth to save us at a time when there is the least appearance...."

— C. H. von Bogatzy —