Quotemeal for Wednesday, March 21, 1956

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales

More Quotemeal

"True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase,..."

— Henry Scougal —

"There is no way of belonging to Jesus Christ except by belonging gladly and irrevocably to the glorious ragbag of saints and fat-heads who make up the One, Holy..."

— Bishop Geoffrey Paul —

"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —