Quotemeal for Monday, November 24, 2003

"Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,|And back of the flour is the mill;|And back of the mill is the wheat, and the shower|And the sun, and the Father's will."

— Maltbie D. Babcock

More Quotemeal

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."

— Spanish Proverb —

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer."

— Martin Luther —

"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..."

— Evelyn Underhill —