Quotemeal for Sunday, August 7, 2011

"Living for others, commitment to God's redeeming purposes, is a means of grace. We give because of our faith, and it deepens as we give. If we permit ourselves and our people to give casually, we are really teaching contempt."

— Richard S. Emrich

More Quotemeal

"A religion without mystery must be a religion without God."

— Jeremy Taylor —

"Be thou a bright flame before me,|Be thou a guiding star above me,|Be thou a smooth path below me,|Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me,|Today - tonight - and..."

— Columba of Iona —

"Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple."

— St. Gregory the Great —

"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within..."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder —