Quotemeal: Sep. 14th, 1946

Saturday, September 14, 1946

"The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas."
— Frank Laubach

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"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a "No Fishing" sign over the spot."
— Dwight L. Moody —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."
— Johann K. Lavater —

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Illustration of Frank Laubach — "The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas."

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