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

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."

— John Calvin —

"Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life."

— Amos J. Farver —

"Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God."

— Charles Finney —

"When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place we would rather not go."

— Brennan Manning —