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

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

— Søren Kierkegaard —

"He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself."

— Montaigne —

"All the graces of a Christian spring from the death of self."

— Madame Guyon —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —