Quotemeal: Jul. 15th, 2004

Thursday, July 15, 2004

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

More Quotemeal

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens —
"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives."
— Brennan Manning —
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""
— John Greenleaf Whittier —

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Illustration of Walter Hilton — "It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them."

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