Quotemeal for Thursday, June 10, 2004

"If our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them."

— C. S. Lewis

More Quotemeal

"How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?"

— John Henry Newman —

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."

— Vance Havner —

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

— John Quincy Adams —

"Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing..."

— John Keble —