Quotemeal for Thursday, October 23, 2008

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."

— Hazlitt

More Quotemeal

"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars."

— Martin Luther —

"Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns."

— Clement of Alexander —

"How long must we wait until the fulfillment of the word of the Lord ... Will it be too late? Will we, or our children's children, be subsumed by the dragging,....."

— Thom Lemmons —

"There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now."

— Henry Ward Beecher —