Quotemeal for Thursday, August 15, 1963

"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

— Blaise Pascal

More Quotemeal

"When I survey the wondrous cross,|On which the Prince of Glory died,|My richest gain I count but loss,|And pour contempt on all my pride."

— Isaac Watts —

"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."

— John Donne —

"Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so....."

— Thomas à Kempis —