Quotemeal: Feb. 16th, 2020

Sunday, February 16, 2020

"God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."
— Coventry Patmore

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"God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way."
— Leighton Ford —
"The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —
"Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue."
— St. John Chrysostom —
"Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication."
— Simone Weil —

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Illustration of Coventry Patmore — "God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him."

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