Quotemeal: Jan. 8th, 2014

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."
— Lewis Carroll

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"It's never too late to start doing what is right."
"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
— Leo Tolstoy —
"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."
— Henri Nouwen —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."

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Illustration of Lewis Carroll — "I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me."

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