Quotemeal for Tuesday, October 12, 1943

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him."

— Julian of Norwich —

"Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,|And back of the flour is the mill;|And back of the mill is the wheat, and the shower|And the sun, and the Father's will."

— Maltbie D. Babcock —

"Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve."

— Douglas Groothuis —

"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not..."

— Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador —