Quotemeal for Sunday, September 15, 1957

"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."

— Mark Aulson

More Quotemeal

"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."

— Samuel Johnson —

"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 —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —