Quotemeal: Nov. 2nd, 2004

Tuesday, November 2, 2004

"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."
— Morris Alder

More Quotemeal

"Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out."
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief - the other is contempt."
Plutarch
"If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them."
John Owen
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple... but only God can count the apples in a seed."

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Illustration of Morris Alder — "Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

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