Quotemeal for Thursday, September 12, 1963

"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, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."

— Adrei Bitov

More Quotemeal

"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life, but has also spoken for us by his death."

— Søren Kierkegaard —

"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."

— Mother Teresa —

"A lie goes half way around the world before the truth can get its pants on."

— Winston Churchill —

"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil....."

— Albert Einstein —