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

"Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day."

— Henri Nouwen —

"When led by the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak."

— Lewis Sperry Chafer —

"It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is..."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see..."

— John Newton —