Quotemeal for Sunday, March 28, 1954

"We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling."

— John Churtom Collins

More Quotemeal

"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."

— Walter Hilton —

"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."

— Jim Elliot —

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not..."

— John of the Cross —

"Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing..."

— John Keble —