Quotemeal for Friday, September 12, 2003

"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

More Quotemeal

"Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp."

— Leo the Great —

"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."

— J. I. Packer —

"The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak..."

— Origen —