Quotemeal for Thursday, August 17, 2006

"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

More Quotemeal

"Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation."

— Andrew Murray —

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.||"

— C. S. Lewis —

"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

"We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The..."

— John Churtom Collins —