Quotemeal for Tuesday, May 21, 2019

"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

"Do you wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to your neighbor."

— John Chrysostom —

"A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it."

— Larry Burkett —

"I will not work my soul to save,|For that my Lord alone has done;|But I will work like any slave |Because I'm loved by God's dear Son!"

— William Henry Griffith Thomas —

"The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down."

— George Whitefield —