Quotemeal for Wednesday, July 25, 1962

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars."

— Thomas à Kempis

More Quotemeal

"Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours."

— Edward B. Pusey —

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

— Charles Dickens —

"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed round our incompleteness ..."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —

"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 —