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

"God examines both rich and poor, not according to their lands and houses, but according to the riches of their hearts."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"If we really think that home is elsewhere, and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,' why should I not look forward to the arrival?"

— C. S. Lewis —

"Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there."

— Catherine of Siena —

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult..."

— Evelyn Underhill —