Quotemeal for Friday, December 23, 2022

"The whole concept of God taking human shape had never made much sense to me. That was because, I realised one wonderful day, it was so simple. For people with bodies, important things like love have to be embodied. That's all. God had to be embodied, or else people with bodies would never in a trillion years understand about love."

— Jane Vonnegut Yarmolinsky

More Quotemeal

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."

— Billy Wilder —

"Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."

— Thomas Moore —

"Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple."

— St. Gregory the Great —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —