Quotemeal for Tuesday, May 22, 2018

"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 existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"You can in no manner be satisfied with temporal goods, for you were not created to find your rest in them."

— Thomas à Kempis —

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

— Catherine of Siena —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —