Quotemeal for Sunday, December 22, 1957

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

— Benjamin Franklin

More Quotemeal

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."

— Thornton Wilder —

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

— Willis Whitney —

"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your....."

— Phillips Brooks —