Quotemeal for Monday, January 27, 1958

"The Christian life isn't difficult — it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own."

— Joseph Garlingen

More Quotemeal

"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."

— Rossetti —

"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

— Winston Churchill —

"No rock is so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

— Lord Tennyson Alfred —

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in..."

— Flannery O'Connor —