Quotemeal: Aug. 18th, 1955

Thursday, August 18, 1955

"God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with."
— Luis Palau

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"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."
— Mark Finley —
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.||"
— C. S. Lewis —
"Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there."
— Catherine of Siena —
"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."
— Matthew Henry —

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Illustration of Luis Palau — "God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with."

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