Quotemeal for Thursday, April 9, 1959

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

— Seneca —

"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

— Robert G. Ingersoll —

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."

— G. K. Chesterton —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —