Quotemeal for Sunday, December 23, 1962

"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

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

— Charles Dickens —

"Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it."

— Charles F. Banning —

"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

— Thomas a Kempis —

"God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever...."

— Otto Dibelius —