Quotemeal for Saturday, January 21, 1956

"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."

— G. K. Chesterton

More Quotemeal

"God still draws near to us in the ordinary, commonplace, everyday experiences and places... He comes in surprising ways."

— Henry Gariepy —

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."

— Francis de Sales —

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be....."

— John Calvin —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —