Quotemeal for Sunday, May 14, 2023

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers."

— John Donne

More Quotemeal

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

— C. S. Lewis —

"Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction."

— A. W. Tozer —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —