Quotemeal for Thursday, May 22, 1958

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

"God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters."

— J. H. Jowett —

"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."

— François de Sales —

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."

— Robert Louis Stevenson —