Quotemeal for Saturday, March 28, 2026

"We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling."

— John Churtom Collins

More Quotemeal

"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise..."

— George Macdonald —

"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."

— John Climacus —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —