Christ, our Light

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 31, 1996

Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888

         "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.
         ... F. D. Maurice, The Prayer-Book and the Lord's Prayer