Quotemeal for Tuesday, May 16, 2017

"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."

— John Milton

More Quotemeal

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

— Gaston Bachelard —

"Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity....."

— John Chrysostom —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"Theologically, we have been discovering anew that the Church is not an appendage to the Gospel: it is itself a part of the Gospel. The Gospel cannot be..."

— Stephen Neill —