Quotemeal for Sunday, August 17, 2003

"God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person — a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father."

— Robert Hamill

More Quotemeal

"Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming, which God has been so good as to fasten with His own hand upon our shoulders."

— F. W.Faber —

"We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity."

— Stephen Charnock —

"Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently."

— François de Sales —

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows...."

— Mother Teresa —