Quotemeal for Thursday, July 15, 2004

"It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them."

— Walter Hilton

More Quotemeal

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

— C. S. Lewis —

"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."

— William Gurnall —

"Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no....."

— Meister Eckhart —

"In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of value because they were possessed..."

— William Barclay —