Quotemeal for Thursday, July 23, 1959

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

— Charles F. Banning

More Quotemeal

"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"God often gives in one brief moment that which he has for a long time denied."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even in Christ was exception made of the death of the body; and although He was the Lord of nature, He refused..."

— St. Ambrose —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —