Quotemeal for Friday, September 15, 2006

"Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied."

— Richard J. Foster

More Quotemeal

"Those who pursue the way of faith and absolute abandonment have neither relish nor liberty for any other path; all else constrains and embarrasses them."

— Madame Guyon —

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

— C. S. Lewis —