Quotemeal for Monday, July 8, 2002

"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning."

— Emil Brunner

More Quotemeal

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without..."

— Thomas Jefferson —

"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ."

— Martin Luther —

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not..."

— John of the Cross —

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."

— Frederick Buechner —