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

"Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day."

— Henri Nouwen —

"I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing. These sounds flowed into my ears, and the...."

— St. Augustine of Canterbury —

"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."

— John Tillotson —

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."

— Matthew Henry —