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

"There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things."

— Welsh Proverb —

"Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him."

— Julian of Norwich —

"I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself."

— John Newton —

"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 —