Quotemeal for Thursday, May 30, 1963

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."

— Teresa of Avila

More Quotemeal

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

— C. S. Lewis —

"Nothing is small if God accepts it."

— Teresa of Avila —

"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."

— Jean Nicolas Grou —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —