Quotemeal for Thursday, December 23, 2010

"The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with bodies, important things like love have to be embodied. That's all. God had to be embodied, or else people with bodies would never in a trillion years understand about love."

— Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky

More Quotemeal

"Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven."

— Burder —

"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"[John the Baptist said] 'He must increase, but I must decrease.' ... No driven person could ever say what John said, because driven people have to keep gaining...."

— Gordon McDonald —

"The seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality,..."

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson —