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

"The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches."

— Dwight L. Moody —

"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."

— J. I. Packer —

"Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Father; He is our right hand through which we offer ourselves...."

— St. Ambrose —

"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within..."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder —