Quotemeal for Friday, January 1, 2010

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

— Thomas Mann

More Quotemeal

"He who has God and Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone."

— C. S. Lewis —

"We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very essence of the gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates —

"The seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality,..."

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson —