Quotemeal for Saturday, October 23, 2004

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."

— Hazlitt

More Quotemeal

"Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off."

— Philip Henry —

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

— Mother Teresa —

"The loving service which God sends His people into the world to render includes both evangelism and social action, for each is in itself an authentic expression..."

— John R. W. Stott —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —