Quotemeal: Sep. 12th, 1955

Monday, September 12, 1955

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."
— Adrei Bitov

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"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."
— Frederick Buechner —
"Our work here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like a shadow."
— Clare of Assisi —
"Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man."
— Bernard of Clairvaux —
"You'll never realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you've got."
— Mother Teresa —

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Illustration of Adrei Bitov — "In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."

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