Quotemeal: Feb. 16th, 2008

Saturday, February 16, 2008

"God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."
— Coventry Patmore

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"I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men."
— Dwight L. Moody —
"Hold everything earthly with a loose hand."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man."
— Bernard of Clairvaux —
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises . . . leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

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Illustration of Coventry Patmore — "God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."

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