Quotemeal for Tuesday, April 16, 1957

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

— Frederick Buechner

More Quotemeal

"You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are."

"We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the....."

— Jean Pierre de Caussade —

"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."

— Plutarch —

"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 —