Quotemeal for Tuesday, August 16, 1960

"If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer "Action!""

— Thomas Brooks

More Quotemeal

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

— Søren Kierkegaard —

"From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel."

— Teresa of Avila —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

— John Henry Newman —