Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 1959

Thursday, April 9, 1959

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."
— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things."
"What soap is to the body, tears are for the soul."
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
"I believe in God like I believe in the sun rise. Not because I can see it, but because I can see all that it touches."
C. S. Lewis

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Illustration of John of the Cross — "However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not one step will you advance on the road to perfection."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.