Quotemeal for Tuesday, August 1, 2006

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

— Samuel Johnson

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 —

"Jesus the very thought of Thee|With sweetness fills my breast;|But sweeter far Thy face to see|And in Thy presence rest."

— Bernard of Clairvaux —

"Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach."

— R. W. Dale —

"Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so....."

— Thomas à Kempis —