Quotemeal: Feb. 16th, 1960

Tuesday, February 16, 1960

"God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."
— Coventry Patmore

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"Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal."
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"It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation."
— Theodore Epp —
"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles."
— B. B. Warfield —
"Sanctification is glory begun. Glory is sanctification completed."
— F. F. Bruce —

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Illustration of Coventry Patmore — "God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."

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