Quotemeal: May. 21st, 1959

Thursday, May 21, 1959

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"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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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has."
— Robert E. Harris —
"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind."
— Ralph W. Sockman —
"Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness."
— Blaise Pascal —

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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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