Quotemeal for Friday, May 25, 2007

"Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp."

— Leo the Great —

"He became what we are that he might make us what he is."

— Athanasius of Alexandria —

"Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly...."

— William Law —

"I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden...."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —