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

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity."

— Brother Lawrence —

"We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us."

— Ed Howe —

"Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —