Quotemeal for 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

More Quotemeal

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose... only [upon] the Beloved who will never pass away."

— C. S. Lewis —

"The streets of hell are paved with good intentions."

— Mark Twain —

"Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list."

— Stan Michalski —

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual..."

— Thomas à Kempis —