Quotemeal for Tuesday, January 23, 2018

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

— A. J. Gossip

More Quotemeal

"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?"

— Gerard Majella —

"Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face."

— Francis of Assisi —

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."

— Matthew Henry —