Quotemeal for Thursday, March 17, 2022

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

— Mother Teresa

More Quotemeal

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."

— Seneca —

"Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men."

— John Chrysostom —

"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything..."

— Phillips Brooks —