Quotemeal for Thursday, December 29, 2005

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden."

— Corrie ten Boom —

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

— Samuel Johnson —

"Why is purity such a struggle? Why is it so difficult to order our lives in a way that allows Christ to shine through us? ... We destroy purity by equating it....."

— David Edwards —

"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."

— Armin Gesswein —