Quotemeal for Saturday, May 21, 1955

"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer."

— Robert L. Short

More Quotemeal

"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

— William Shakespeare —

"Persecution for righteousness' sake is what every child of God must expect."

— Charles Simeon —

"Many things I have tried to grasp, and have lost. That which I have placed in God's hands I still have."

— Martin Luther —

"We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided."

— Phillips Brooks —