Quotemeal for Wednesday, December 20, 2006

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

— Calvin Coolidge

More Quotemeal

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars."

— Elbert Hubbard —

"One day we will meet beside the river and our Lord will dry every tear. For now, we must live in the joy of that promise and recall that for every generation..."

— Bodie Thoene —

"If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —