Quotemeal for Monday, December 1, 2008

"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?"

— Gerard Majella

More Quotemeal

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child Himself."

— Charles Dickens —

"Look around the habitable world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

— John Dryden —

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it....."

— David Edwards —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —