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

"We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people."

— Author Unknown —

"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."

— John Ruskin —

"There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to..."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —