Quotemeal: May. 5th, 1960

Thursday, May 5, 1960

"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."
— Thomas à Kempis

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"When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough."
— Maude Royden —
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
— Thomas Hardy —
"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
— François de Sales —
"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them."
— C. S. Lewis —

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Illustration of Thomas à Kempis — "You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."

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