Quotemeal for Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them."

— St. Augustine of Hippo

More Quotemeal

"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."

— Epictetus —

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— Walter Rauschenbusch —

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."

— A. J. Gossip —