Quotemeal for Tuesday, September 28, 1954

"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 will see not yourself but, for a moment, that which passeth understanding, a realm to which no man can ride or fly. And for which the soul begins to ache..."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

More Quotemeal

"I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved."

— Polycarp —

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

— Morris Alder —

"All the graces of a Christian spring from the death of self."

— Madame Guyon —

"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 —