Quotemeal for Thursday, December 21, 2006

"Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind."

— Helen Steiner Rice

More Quotemeal

"We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people."

"It is our nature's law that makes a man set higher value on the things he has not got than upon those he has, so that he loathes his actual possessions in..."

— Bernard of Clairvaux —

"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."

— John of the Cross —

"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes...."

— Billy Sunday —