Quotemeal for Monday, April 25, 2011

"Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of life back into the harbor of the divine will."

— St. Gregory of Nyssa

More Quotemeal

"Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility."

— John Climacus —

"God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch our converts."

— F. Lincicome —

"Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint, and he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is."

— Blaise Pascal —

"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..."

— John Churtom Collins —