Quotemeal for Saturday, February 18, 2017

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

— Thomas Jefferson

More Quotemeal

"If the blind put their hand in God's they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose."

— Helen Keller —

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

— Goethe —

"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining...."

— Gordon McDonald —