Quotemeal: May. 21st, 2011

Saturday, May 21, 2011

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"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

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"Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled."
— Irenaeus —
"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."
— C. S. Lewis —
"The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the Devil."
— C. S. Lewis —

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Illustration of Robert L. Short — "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."

Other Devotionals from Heartlight for Saturday, May 21, 2011

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Morning & Evening
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'Turn Loose God's Power' (Ep. 3:14-19)
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