Quotemeal for Monday, February 21, 2005

"Men love to be encouraged by false hopes; the world is full of quack remedies for sin."

— J. Gresham Machen

More Quotemeal

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

— Victor Hugo —

"We can love the world, or love God. If we love the world, there will be no room in our heart for the love of God. We cannot love both God, who is eternal, and...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"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 —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —