Quotemeal for Monday, November 11, 1963

"Why do so many people have struggles when it comes to prayer? ... Men and women were originally created to desire communion with God. But the effects of sin have dulled most of that original human desire. Sin turned a natural activity into an unnatural function."

— Gordon McDonald

More Quotemeal

"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."

— John of the Cross —

"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."

— John Ruskin —

"You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long...."

— Rick Warren —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

— Madeleine L'Engle —