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

"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"Everybody wants justice - for someone else."

— Bruce Cockburn —

"It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found..."

— George Eliot —

"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 —