Quotemeal for Monday, December 10, 2007

"You know how it is — you say the same words, yet they mean different things to those hearing them. you offer the same touch, yet it yields different results in different lives. Some people soak up your touch; others wipe it off. You might look at these situations and get discouraged: "Fine! I just won't do anything nice for anyone!" Yet look back at the example of Jesus."

— Amy Nappa

More Quotemeal

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""

— John Greenleaf Whittier —

"Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action, though reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action."

— John Mackay —

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

— Teresa of Avila —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —