Quotemeal for Monday, January 1, 1962

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

— Thomas Mann

More Quotemeal

"Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day."

— Henri Nouwen —

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

— Morris Alder —

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —