Quotemeal for 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

More Quotemeal

"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done for us in the past and all that he is doing now leads us to that one end."

— A. W. Tozer —

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity."

— John Flavel —

"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 —