Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 1946

Saturday, August 17, 1946

"Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."
— Ben Patterson

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"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
— C. S. Lewis —
"The one true way of dying to self is the way of patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God."
— Andrew Murray —
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

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Illustration of Ben Patterson — "Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."

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