Quotemeal for Monday, July 9, 2001

"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."

— Rossetti

More Quotemeal

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child Himself."

— Charles Dickens —

"If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns."

— Author Unknown —

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

— John Calvin —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —