Quotemeal for Thursday, December 29, 2005

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

— Winston Churchill —

"Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to....."

— François Fénelon —

"Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may -..."

— Martin Luther —