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

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"The Christian's hope for the future must have a sanctifying influence upon the present."

— D. Edmond Hiebert —

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