Quotemeal for Sunday, September 28, 1958

"By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you will see not yourself but, for a moment, that which passeth understanding, a realm to which no man can ride or fly. And for which the soul begins to ache..."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

More Quotemeal

"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."

— John Milton —

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

— Dr. Caird —

"It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when....."

— C. S. Lewis —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —