Quotemeal for Tuesday, February 16, 1960

"God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."

— Coventry Patmore

More Quotemeal

"Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil — it seizes up."

— Romano Guardini —

"The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired."

— John of the Cross —

"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."

— Frederick Ward Kates —

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked...."

— Catherine Marshall —