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

"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was one of the main teachings of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and...."

— H. G. Wells —

"It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ."

— Dorothy Sayers —

"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."

— John Owen —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —