Quotemeal: May. 1st, 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"
— Matthew Henry

More Quotemeal

"Love transcends all the human sense and reason can reach to."
Jacob Boehme
"No man is free who is a slave to the flesh."
Seneca
"No man is ever more than four steps from God: conviction, repentance, consecration, and faith."
Roy L. Smith
"True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God."

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Illustration of Matthew Henry — "The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer.  How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.