Quotemeal for Wednesday, October 23, 2024

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."

— Hazlitt

More Quotemeal

"Let's not drag God's standard of truth down to our level of performance."

— Morris Vendon —

"Do you wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to your neighbor."

— John Chrysostom —

"It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened."

— John Owen —

"Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing..."

— John Keble —