Quotemeal for Friday, July 7, 2023

"When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves – that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience."

— N.T. Wright

More Quotemeal

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

— Frederick Buechner —

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."

— Vance Havner —

"Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled."

— Irenaeus —

"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...."

— Mother Teresa —