Quotemeal for Sunday, July 25, 2010

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars."

— Thomas à Kempis

More Quotemeal

"Over the long run, love's power to forgive is stronger than hate's power to get even."

— Lewis B. Smedes —

"Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts."

— François Fénelon —

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates —

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in..."

— Flannery O'Connor —