Quotemeal for Wednesday, October 14, 1959

"What God did makes sense. It makes sense that Jesus would be our sacrifice because a sacrifice was needed to justify man's presence before God. ... However, WHY God did it is absolutely absurd. When one leaves the method and examines the motive, the carefully stacked blocks of logic begin to tumble. That type of love isn't logical; it can't be neatly outlined in a sermon or explained in a term paper. ... It IS inexplicable. It doesn't have a drop of logic nor a thread of rationality. And yet, it is that very irrationality that gives the gospel its greatest defense. For only God could love like that."

— Max Lucado

More Quotemeal

"A gem cannot be polished without friction; the child of God cannot be perfected without adversity."

— Author Unknown —

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

— Dr. Caird —

"Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there."

— Catherine of Siena —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —