Quotemeal for Friday, July 1, 1955

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates

More Quotemeal

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in words alone,but in every leaf in springtime."

— Martin Luther —

"Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost."

— Smith Wigglesworth —

"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and..."

— Thomas Merton —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —