Quotemeal for Monday, May 23, 2011

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."

— Lesslie Newbigin

More Quotemeal

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

— Mark Finley —

"Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest."

— Book of Common Prayer —

"Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it."

— Tristan Gulberd —

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —