Quotemeal for Sunday, March 28, 2010

"We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling."

— John Churtom Collins

More Quotemeal

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass!"

— Scott Nicholson —

"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."

— John the Short —

"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."

— John Climacus —

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked...."

— Catherine Marshall —