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

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

— William James —

"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are."

— François de Sales —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —