Quotemeal: May. 30th, 2002

Thursday, May 30, 2002

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."
— Phillips Brooks

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"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."
— Walter Hilton —
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— John of the Cross —
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— Dorotheus of Gaza —
"There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now."
— Henry Ward Beecher —

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Illustration of Phillips Brooks — "We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

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