Quotemeal for Monday, May 21, 1951

"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

"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their own independence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth announced in....."

— Abraham Lincoln —

"Worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable."

— John Stott —

"We see in the risen Christ the end for which man was made, and the assurance that the end is within our reach."

— Brooke Foss Wescott —

"If I didn't have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I'm an optimist. I've read the last page in the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

— Billy Graham —