Quotemeal: May. 21st, 2007

Monday, May 21, 2007

Verse of the Day: The Stream Continues

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"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer."
— Robert L. Short

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"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."
— Rossetti —
"Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."
— Thomas Moore —
"The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes —
"God does not waste suffering; if he ploughs it is because He purposes a crop."
— J.O.Sanders —

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Illustration of Robert L. Short — "The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer."

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'Hear My Voice!' (Jn. 5:25-27)
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Today's Verse
A daily devotional featuring a Bible verse, thought and prayer.
Romans 5:10
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