Quotemeal for Thursday, December 8, 1955

"The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook — even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us."

— R. T. Kendall

More Quotemeal

"To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His..."

— Thomas Merton —

"Our work here is brief but its reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes away like a shadow."

— Clare of Assisi —

"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

— Jean Nicolas Grou —

"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 —