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

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

— Billy Sunday —

"When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope."

— Yazid Ibrahim —

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

— John Quincy Adams —

"The seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality,..."

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson —