Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 1, 1958

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

— Thomas Mann

More Quotemeal

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

— Henry David Thoreau —

"Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the....."

— Evelyn Underhill —

"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ was no mere man: Between Him and whoever else in the world there is no possible term of comparison."

— Napoleon —

"When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place we would rather not go."

— Brennan Manning —