Quotemeal for Monday, May 21, 2007

"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

"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it of..."

— Walter Scott —

"A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."

— Morris Bender —

"The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails."

— François Fénelon —

"More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born."

— Author Unknown —