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

"The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God."

— Thomas Merton —

"The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes —

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

— Thomas Fuller —

"God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth....."

— Thomas Watson —