Quotemeal for Saturday, July 25, 1998

"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

"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."

— Timothy Keller —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —