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

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"The name of Jesus is in my mind as a joyful song, in my ear a heavenly music, and in my mouth a sweet honey."

— Richard Rolle —

"Our new cultural postmodern credo for avoiding sin is, "Hurt no one and do what you please." ... I much prefer Augustine's credo for avoiding sin: "Love God and..."

— Calvin Miller —