Quotemeal for Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"In Jesus' case, we have the story of the holiest man who ever lived, and yet it was the prostitutes and thieves who adored Him, and the religious who hated His...."

— Rebecca Manley Pippert —

"If God is thy father, man is thy brother."

— Alphonse de Lamartine —

"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —