Quotemeal for Friday, August 15, 2008

"I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing. These sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart."

— St. Augustine of Canterbury

More Quotemeal

"The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God."

— W. T. Richardson —

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

— Morris Alder —

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

— Martin Luther —

"Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as...."

— Phillips Brooks —