Quotemeal for Monday, June 18, 2007

"The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I have never been able to substitute any desire for that, or to accept any of the different schemes for satisfaction of that men have desired."

— F. D. Maurice

More Quotemeal

"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."

— Epictetus —

"We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves....."

— Calvin Miller —

"All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

"If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious..."

— Henry Sloane Coffin —