Quotemeal: Aug. 17th, 2022

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

"Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."
— Ben Patterson

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"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa —
"The heart of a child is the most precious of God's creation. Never break it. At all costs, never break it."
— Joseph L. Whitten —
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
— Martin Luther King, Jr. —
"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."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Ben Patterson — "Perhaps one reason God delays His answers to our prayers is because He knows we need to be with Him far more than we need the things we ask of Him."

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