Quotemeal for Thursday, January 23, 1958

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

— A. J. Gossip

More Quotemeal

"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."

— John of the Cross —

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

— Morris Alder —

"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 —

"The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though....."

— S. T. Coleridge —