Quotemeal for Monday, December 23, 2002

"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

"The life of faith is continually renewed victory over doubt, a continually renewed grasp of meaning in the midst of meaninglessness."

— L. Newbigin —

"It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people; "for the kingdom of God consisteth in simplicity of faith, not in wordy contention.""

— St. Ambrose —

"We can never hear the warning often enough. The tongue may be small, but oh so deadly when not under the sanctifying grace of God."

— Lin Pearson —

"There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock...."

— F. B. Meyer —