Quotemeal for Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."

— Teresa of Avila

More Quotemeal

"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."

— Calvin Coolidge —

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

— Leo Tolstoy —

"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."

— John Tillotson —

"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 —