Quotemeal: May. 1st, 2020

Friday, May 1, 2020

"The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"
— Matthew Henry

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"When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor."
— Walter Hilton —
"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."
— Jim Elliot —
"A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him."
— Lyof N. Tolstoy —
"Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God."
— Charles Finney —

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Illustration of Matthew Henry — "The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!"

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

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