Quotemeal for Monday, October 12, 1959

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him."

— John Owen —

"He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself."

— Montaigne —

"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."

— François de Sales —

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in..."

— Flannery O'Connor —