Quotemeal for Wednesday, October 31, 1956

"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold."

— Thomas Brooks

More Quotemeal

"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."

— Swedish Proverb —

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even in Christ was exception made of the death of the body; and although He was the Lord of nature, He refused..."

— St. Ambrose —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —