Quotemeal for Monday, August 8, 2011

"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."

— François de Sales

More Quotemeal

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him."

— Meister Eckhart —

"Think of these things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."

— Benjamin Franklin —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —