Quotemeal: Feb. 16th, 2024

Friday, February 16, 2024

"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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"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
— William R. Inge —
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— A. W. Tozer —
"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man."
— Francis J. Spellman —
"To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis —

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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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