Quotemeal for Thursday, March 21, 2002

"God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them."

— C. S. Lewis

More Quotemeal

"We take care of our possessions for our children. But of the children themselves we take no care at all. What an absurdity is this! Form the soul of thy son..."

— John Chrysostom —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —

"The voices of the world are loud and sparse, but the voice of God is a constant whisper."

— Benjamin J. Elger —

"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 —