Quotemeal for Sunday, August 29, 2010

"The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."

— Michael Ramsey

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"The first duty of love is to listen."

"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...."

— St. Augustine of Canterbury —

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

— John Climacus —

"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 —