Quotemeal for Saturday, November 27, 2010

"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."

— Simone Weil

More Quotemeal

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

— Benjamin Franklin —

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work...."

— Teresa of Avila —

"Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to..."

— Billy Graham —