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 —

"The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."

— Phillips Brooks —

"Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach."

— R. W. Dale —

"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 —