Quotemeal for Monday, October 12, 2015

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —

"Great hopes make great men."

— Thomas Fuller —

"Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, so Scripture may guide those adrift...."

— St. Gregory of Nyssa —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —