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

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""

— John Greenleaf Whittier —

"The devil does not sleep, nor is the flesh yet dead; therefore, you must never cease your preparation for battle, because on the right and the left are enemies...."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face."

— Francis of Assisi —

"When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe..."

— James Houston —