Quotemeal for Tuesday, April 12, 1955

"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith."

— Thomas Merton

More Quotemeal

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

— James Russell Lowell —

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates —

"Many times disillusionment comes simply because our circumstances don't fit our concept of who God is and how He works."

— Mark Wiley —

"The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God."

— W. T. Richardson —