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

"Rely implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little..."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Since He hath looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it."

— Samuel Rutherford —

"Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man."

— Bernard of Clairvaux —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —