Quotemeal for Saturday, May 22, 1954

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."

— William Law —

"Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal."

— Steve Kumar —

"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."

— Roger Williams —

"By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you...."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —