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

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil..."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

"Find out how much God has given you and take from it what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed round our incompleteness ..."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales —