Quote of the Day (Frank Laubach, on the ‘Darker Hours’ When God Comes)

“There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.”—Pioneer American linguist and missionary Frank Laubach (1884-1970), Feb. 6, 1931 letter, in Letters by a Modern Mystic, edited by Gina Brandon and Karen Friesen (originally published 1937, new edition 2007)

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis, on God’s “Megaphone”)

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."—C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940)