Quotemeal for Saturday, October 12, 2019

"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

"Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp."

— Leo the Great —

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

— Dr. Caird —

"One who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on... Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and....."

— Emil Brunner —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —