Quotemeal for Thursday, January 19, 2006

"Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an "accident," but a divine choice."

— Henri Nouwen

More Quotemeal

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— Rebecca Manley Pippert —

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— C. S. Lewis —

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be....."

— John Calvin —

"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within..."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder —