Quotemeal for Monday, May 21, 2007

"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

More Quotemeal

"We never move on from the cross of Christ, only into a more profound understanding of the cross."

— David Prior —

"Technology was made for man, not man for technology."

— Thomas Merton —

"Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it."

— Tristan Gulberd —

"For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered."

— Nancy Parker Brummett —