Quotemeal for Monday, January 3, 2000

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

— Goethe

More Quotemeal

"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ."

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —