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

"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs....."

— Martin Luther —

"Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"He is not great who is not greatly good."

— William Shakespeare —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —