Quotemeal for Monday, July 14, 2008

"Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions."

— Peter Damian

More Quotemeal

"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test first before presenting the lesson."

— Vernon Law —

"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."

— John Chrysostom —

"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 —

"By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you...."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —