Quotemeal for Thursday, April 27, 2006

"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated..."

— Emil Brunner —

"May the grace of Christ our Saviour,|And the Father's boundless love,|With the Holy Spirit's favour,|Rest upon us from above."

— John Newton —

"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man."

— Francis J. Spellman —

"By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you...."

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —