Quotemeal for Tuesday, January 14, 1958

"God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful."

— Frank Peretti

More Quotemeal

"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world."

— John Calvin —

"The greatest of all visions is to see Christ, indeed, to see God, in the frail and glorious human family of the world."

— MacRina Wiederkehr —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —