Quotemeal for Tuesday, September 1, 2015

"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining more and more attention, more and more power, more and more material assets. The seductions of the public life would have led to a competitive posture, but the original call to commitment from within spoke louder."

— Gordon McDonald

More Quotemeal

"We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great love.|"

— Mother Teresa —

"We evalutate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion."

— Sydney J. Harris —

"Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly expect to find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family."

— Thomas Jefferson —

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —