Quotemeal for Sunday, April 9, 1961

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""

— John Greenleaf Whittier

More Quotemeal

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's successes."

— Oscar Wilde —

"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"

— Thomas à Kempis —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —

"What is more pleasing than a psalm? A psalm is a blessing on the lips of the people, praise of God, the assembly's homage, a general acclamation, a word that..."

— Ambrose —