Quotemeal for Monday, August 8, 1960

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus

More Quotemeal

"Lord please give me the patience to listen, the courage to speak, the honor to follow, and the wisdom to lead."

— Author Unknown —

"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."

— John Chrysostom —

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there...."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables,....."

— Madame Jeanne Guyon —