Quotemeal for Wednesday, May 22, 2002

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man....."

— Johannes Tauler —

"If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some folks must love the Church!"

— Gerald I. Teague —

"We either add to the darkness of indifference ... or we light a candle to see by."

— Madeleine L'Engle —

"'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light..."

— John Selden —