Quotemeal for Monday, May 19, 2008

"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."

— John of the Cross

More Quotemeal

"Christians must learn again what Christians have always known — how to live without immediate hopes in the world."

— T. R. Milford —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."

— Armin Gesswein —