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

"God doesn't call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies them."

— Richard Parker —

"If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good."

— Struthers Burt —

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

— Martin Luther —

"If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way..."

— William Penn —