Quotemeal for Saturday, May 22, 2010

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."

— P.T. Forsyth —

"If we really think that home is elsewhere, and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,' why should I not look forward to the arrival?"

— C. S. Lewis —

"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."

— Plutarch —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —