Quotemeal for Wednesday, August 25, 2004

"Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers."

— Julian of Norwich

More Quotemeal

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —

"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."

— Thornton Wilder —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —