Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 1954

Tuesday, August 17, 1954

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"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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"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
— Frederick Buechner —
"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens —
"Hold on. Hope hard."
— Robert Browning —
"I tell you, if you are serious about wanting to be like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him."
— Francis Frangipane —

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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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