Quotemeal for Saturday, May 1, 1948

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

— John Bunyan —

"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer."

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing —

"We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."

— John Calvin —

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that....."

— C. S. Lewis —