Quotemeal: May. 21st, 1955

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

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"That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing."
— Martin Luther —
"Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction."
— A. W. Tozer —
"In the New Testament it is the work and not the workers that is glorified."
— Alfred Plummer —
"There is always time enough in a day to do God's will."
— Roy Lessin —

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Illustration of Robert L. Short — "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."

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