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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"Your input will determine your output, so guard what you put in and you won't be put out."
— Peter Sinclair —
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
— Blaise Pascal —
"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin —

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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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