Quotemeal for Sunday, August 15, 2004

"I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing. These sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart."

— St. Augustine of Canterbury

More Quotemeal

"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."

— Frederick Buechner —

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

— Dr. Caird —

"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."

— Henri Nouwen —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —