Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 26, 2005

"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

"Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink deeper. Only an outside hand can pull you out."

— Author Unknown —

"If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer "Action!""

— Thomas Brooks —

"To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills."

— St. Ambrose —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —