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

"Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil — it seizes up."

— Romano Guardini —

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

— Goethe —

"What he's been creating, since the first beat of your heart, is a living, breathing, priceless work of art."

— Steven Curtis Chapman —

"God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find Him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear to God."

— Ron Hansen —