Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 2014

Sunday, August 17, 2014

"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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"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."
— Francis Bacon —
"Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple."
— St. Gregory the Great —
"Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have."
— Author Unknown —
"Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship."
— Douglas Horton —

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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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