Quotemeal: May. 1st, 2016

Sunday, May 1, 2016

"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

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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
— John Wooden —
"As in our daily walk we come nearer towards heaven, He will open to us more of heaven."
— Edward B. Pusey —
"An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand."
— A. W. Tozer —
"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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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.

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