Quotemeal for Monday, April 17, 2006

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get."

— Frederick Buechner

More Quotemeal

"Oh Lord, become the master of our passions, and the creator of our desires."

— R. Marklund —

"He came from God, all the apostles believed, in a sense in which no other came; does it not follow that he came in a way in which no other came?"

— James Denney —

"If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?"

— Blaise Pascal —

"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 —