Quotemeal for Saturday, April 9, 1955

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"The man who refuses to forgive destroys the bridge over which he himself must cross."

— John Iverson —

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."

— Samuel Johnson —

"[King] David certainly was aware that his lust for power had become a barrier to inwardness. Careers, even religious careers, may become little more than forums..."

— Calvin Miller —