Quotemeal: Oct. 23rd, 2005

Sunday, October 23, 2005

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

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"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."
— Lillian Hellman —
"Be thou a bright flame before me,|Be thou a guiding star above me,|Be thou a smooth path below me,|Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me,|Today - tonight - and..."
— Columba of Iona —
"Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to....."
— François Fénelon —
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
— Horace —

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Illustration of Frederick Buechner — "Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."

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