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

"Learn to say "no." It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"We evalutate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion."

— Sydney J. Harris —

"Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, so Scripture may guide those adrift...."

— St. Gregory of Nyssa —

"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."

— Robert Louis Stevenson —