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

"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."

— Edwin Keith —

"What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him."

— Meister Eckhart —

"For the Christian, nothing less than the presence of the Spirit is enough to explain the marvelous changes worked in human lives. Call it grace; call it..."

— Jim McGuiggan —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —