Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 1, 2014

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

— Thomas Mann

More Quotemeal

"Nothing under God's control is ever out of control."

— Charles Swindoll —

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

— Francis Bacon —

"Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty and..."

— Rick Warren —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —