Quotemeal: May. 22nd, 2018

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

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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
— Søren Kierkegaard —
"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 —
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
— Plutarch —
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Evelyn Underhill — "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."

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