Quotemeal for Wednesday, May 12, 2021

"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not."

— Martin Luther

More Quotemeal

"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 —

"For however devoted you are to God, you may be sure that he is immeasurably more devoted to you."

— Meister Eckhart —

"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"

— Thomas à Kempis —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —