Quotemeal for Wednesday, December 28, 2005

"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."

— Lillian Hellman

More Quotemeal

"The Bible shows how the world progresses. It begins with a garden, but ends with a Holy City."

— Phillips Brooks —

"The real danger of legalism is that it produces a sense of attainment that short-circuits our call to live the life of Yes thorugh Christ. Self-achievement..."

— David Edwards —

"To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills."

— St. Ambrose —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —