Quotemeal for Tuesday, July 15, 2008

"It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them."

— Walter Hilton

More Quotemeal

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

— C. S. Lewis —

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

"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 —

"Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone....."

— John Henry Newman —