Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 2002

Saturday, August 17, 2002

"Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."
— Ben Patterson

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"Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality."
— Avery D. Miller —
"Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind."
— Catherine of Siena —
"If a man cannot be a Christian where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
— John Henry Newman —

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Illustration of Ben Patterson — "Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."

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