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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"Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbor on our knees."
— Charles Brent —
"I believe a very large majority of church-goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
— Martin Luther King, Jr. —
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

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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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