Quotemeal for Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens

More Quotemeal

"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."

— John Milton —

"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good."

— John Milton —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up..."

— William Barclay —