Quotemeal for Friday, January 26, 2001

"The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?"

— Thomas Watson

More Quotemeal

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

— Frederick Buechner —

"Well done is better than well said."

— Benjamin Franklin —

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets...."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —