Quotemeal: Sep. 12th, 1947

Friday, September 12, 1947

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."
— Adrei Bitov

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"Culture of intellect, without religion in the heart, is only civilized barbarism and disguised animalism."
— Christian Karl von Bunsen —
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— John Climacus —
"For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away."
— C. S. Lewis —

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Illustration of Adrei Bitov — "In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."

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