Quotemeal for Tuesday, December 23, 1958

"The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with bodies, important things like love have to be embodied. That's all. God had to be embodied, or else people with bodies would never in a trillion years understand about love."

— Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky

More Quotemeal

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

— Cicero —

"Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction."

— A. W. Tozer —

"A man leaves all kinds of footprints when he walks through life. Some you can see ... others are invisible, like the prints he leaves across other people's..."

— Margaret Lee Runbeck —

"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 —