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

"We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine."

— Michel Quoist —

"Those who pursue the way of faith and absolute abandonment have neither relish nor liberty for any other path; all else constrains and embarrasses them."

— Madame Guyon —

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that....."

— C. S. Lewis —