Quotemeal for Monday, January 14, 2002

"God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful."

— Frank Peretti

More Quotemeal

"Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God."

— John Bunyan —

"It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ."

— Dorothy Sayers —

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

— Martin Luther King, Jr. —

"God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find Him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear to God."

— Ron Hansen —