Quotemeal for Thursday, May 14, 1959

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers."

— John Donne

More Quotemeal

"He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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

— Thornton Wilder —

"The question we must ask our heart is, "Am I comfortable under the eye of God? Or is God getting too close?" We are strange and lovely creatures. We can ache..."

— MacRina Wiederkehr —

"Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing..."

— John Keble —