Quotemeal for Thursday, May 21, 2015

"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

"Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ."

— William Barclay —

"He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God."

— B. B. Warfield —

"Christians are not men and women who are hoping for salvation, but those who have experienced it."

— M. Lloyd-Jones —

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail...."

— Albert Einstein —