Quotemeal for Monday, February 18, 1957

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

— Thomas Jefferson

More Quotemeal

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away."

— C. S. Lewis —

"The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God."

— Thomas Merton —

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be....."

— John Calvin —