Quotemeal for Saturday, September 5, 1959

"Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly expect to find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family."

— Thomas Jefferson

More Quotemeal

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —

"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."

— John of the Cross —

"A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own..."

— Dorotheus of Gaza —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —