Quotemeal for Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."

— Lewis Carroll

More Quotemeal

"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"We take care of our possessions for our children. But of the children themselves we take no care at all. What an absurdity is this! Form the soul of thy son..."

— John Chrysostom —

"It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation."

— Theodore Epp —

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in..."

— Flannery O'Connor —