Quotemeal for Friday, May 14, 1999

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers."

— John Donne

More Quotemeal

"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility."

— John Climacus —

"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

— Brother Lawrence —

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that....."

— C. S. Lewis —