Quotemeal for Sunday, December 29, 2013

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"A prayerless soul is a Christless soul."

"It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world."

— John Calvin —

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it....."

— David Edwards —

"The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though....."

— S. T. Coleridge —