Quotemeal for Wednesday, November 8, 2023

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

More Quotemeal

"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the....."

— Jean Pierre de Caussade —

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

— Willis Whitney —

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in..."

— Flannery O'Connor —