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

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."

— Jim Elliot —

"Man does not rule over evil except when he refuses to do it. When he has truly done evil, he is its servant."

— Hildegard of Bingen —

"What he's been creating, since the first beat of your heart, is a living, breathing, priceless work of art."

— Steven Curtis Chapman —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —