Quotemeal for Thursday, May 23, 2002

"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."

— François de Sales

More Quotemeal

"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish."

— Ovid —

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers."

— Ruth Bell Graham —

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —