Quotemeal for Sunday, October 6, 2019

"We fear the search for who we are. Perhaps because we're afraid that having located our true souls, we might not like ourselves that much. So, we shrink to step across the threshold to our inner selves and invite God in. ... But no matter how we love the love the busy world of our relationships, the fast-action theater of our noisy and hurried lives at last empties out. Then we find ourselves in lonely cells of bulky silence that compels us to turn from the outer things and face our inner selves — and our mighty God."

— Calvin Miller

More Quotemeal

"To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His..."

— Thomas Merton —

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

— William Penn —

"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."

— Blaise Pascal —

"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,...."

— Frederick Buechner —