Quotemeal for Tuesday, January 23, 1962

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

— A. J. Gossip

More Quotemeal

"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"It's no good to sit up and take notice if we just keep on sitting."

— Author Unknown —

"Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing..."

— John Keble —