Quotemeal for Sunday, May 22, 2022

"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 —

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

— Francis Bacon —

"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."

— Henri Nouwen —

"The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with....."

— Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky —