Quotemeal for Thursday, September 12, 2019

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."

— Adrei Bitov

More Quotemeal

"Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think."

— Longfellow —

"The tearful praying Christian, whose distress prevent his words, will be clearly understood by the Most High."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm."

— Matt Chandler —

"Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand;....."

— C. S. Lewis —