Quotemeal for Friday, January 8, 2010

"I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."

— Lewis Carroll

More Quotemeal

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

— Mark Finley —

"We evalutate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion."

— Sydney J. Harris —

"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

— Brother Lawrence —

"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 —