Quotemeal for Monday, May 14, 2007

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers."

— John Donne

More Quotemeal

"Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off."

— Philip Henry —

"Hold everything earthly with a loose hand."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it."

— Tristan Gulberd —

"We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The..."

— John Churtom Collins —