Quotemeal: May. 21st, 2019

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

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"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
— Epictetus —
"We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end which is no end."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"No man is ever more than four steps from God: conviction, repentance, consecration, and faith."
— Roy L. Smith —
"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 —

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Illustration of Robert L. Short — "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."

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Proverbs 1:8
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