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

"Peace is to be found in the acceptance of things we are unable to change."

— Author Unknown —

"Politeness is the blossom of our humanity."

— Joubert —

"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

— John Stott —