Quotemeal for Saturday, May 21, 2011

"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

"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."

— Walter Hilton —

"He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God."

— B. B. Warfield —

"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."

— Roger Williams —

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."

— Frederick Buechner —