Quotemeal: May. 21st, 1959

Thursday, May 21, 1959

"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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"Bear in mind there is no situation in life for which you cannot find some word or consolation in Scripture."
— D.L. Moody —
"God doesn't just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace."
— Joni Eareckson Tada —
"Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus."
— Samuel Rutherford —
"God is more disposed to move on an admitted emptiness than a presumed fullness."
— Tommy Tenny —

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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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