Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 1954

Tuesday, August 17, 1954

"Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."
— Ben Patterson

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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— John Bunyan —
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
— Thomas Hardy —
"The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye on the needy world of men."
— David Head —
"There are no accidents in the life of the Christian."
— Rowland Bingham —

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Illustration of Ben Patterson — "Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."

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