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

"If I am not [in a state of grace], God bring me there; if I am, God keep me there!"

— Joan of Arc —

"If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some folks must love the Church!"

— Gerald I. Teague —

"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."

— Henry Emerson Fosdick —

"Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with..."

— Phillips Brooks —