Quotemeal for Friday, May 30, 1958

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

— Phillips Brooks

More Quotemeal

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

— William James —

"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."

— John the Short —

"When we wake up each morning, if praise of the Risen Christ were to fill our hearts ... then in the monotony of daily life, an inner surge of vitality would..."

— Brother Roger —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —