Quotemeal for Saturday, November 27, 2010

"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."

— Simone Weil

More Quotemeal

"When God turns away from us because of selfishness, it is not rejection. Rather, it is an invitation to follow Him to a place we would rather not go."

— Brennan Manning —

"Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and...."

— Glenn Olds —

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked...."

— Catherine Marshall —