This week's random quote - Tennyson

More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of.
Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are people better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friends?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This week's random quote

According to CNN, one in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, which reminds me of a quote by Mark Twain:

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Random quote of the week - Thomas a Kempis

Try to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, whatever they may be. Remember that you also have many failings which others must bear.

If you cannot make yourself what you would like to be, how can you expect to have anyone else exactly as you would like them?

We would willingly have others perfect and yet we do not amend our own faults.

-Imitation of Christ, Book One, chapter 16