Quotemeal for Saturday, November 8, 2003

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

More Quotemeal

"If I am not [in a state of grace], God bring me there; if I am, God keep me there!"

— Joan of Arc —

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk."

— Francis of Assisi —

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen —

"The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though....."

— S. T. Coleridge —