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

"The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God."

— W. T. Richardson —

"The streets of hell are paved with good intentions."

— Mark Twain —

"Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it."

— Tristan Gulberd —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —