Quotemeal for Friday, September 5, 1958

"God doesn't always smooth the path, but sometimes he puts springs in the wagon."

— Marshall Lucas

More Quotemeal

"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite..."

— John Baillie —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."

— Matthew Henry —