Quotemeal for Friday, May 3, 2002

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

— Henry Ward Beecher

More Quotemeal

"There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things."

— Welsh Proverb —

"Make two homes for yourself my daughter. One actual home and another spiritual home, which you carry with you always."

— Catherine of Siena —

"Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to....."

— François Fénelon —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —