Quotemeal for Tuesday, June 9, 2015

"Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue."

— St. John Chrysostom

More Quotemeal

"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."

— John of the Cross —

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —

"Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated..."

— Emil Brunner —