Quotemeal for Friday, August 23, 2024

"I have no doubt that the world stands because of the prayers of Christians."

— Aristides of Athens

More Quotemeal

"Nothing can be said so clearly as to preclude the possibility of it being misunderstood."

"The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter."

— John of the Cross —

"Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to....."

— François Fénelon —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —