Quotemeal for Sunday, February 12, 2023

"The question we must ask our heart is, "Am I comfortable under the eye of God? Or is God getting too close?" We are strange and lovely creatures. We can ache for God tremendously yet find ourselves getting nervous if God gets too close. After all, the closer God gets, the more we hear the call to be divinized. It is both exciting and frightening to hear that call."

— MacRina Wiederkehr

More Quotemeal

"Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always."

— J. I. Packer —

"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life."

— Eugene Peterson —

"God, harden me against myself."

— Amy Carmichael —

"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not..."

— John of the Cross —