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“We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.”
“The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along with the times of ...”
“The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.”
“In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.”
“Continual prayer is a lifestyle."~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
“Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.”
“...Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest"(Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness...”
“My prayer life IS my life.”
“True love waits...”
“The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.”
“The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14”
“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”
“Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”
“When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at Gods throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mi...”
“When Jesus said ast and youll get it, He meant things of the spirit, not the flesh. Grandpa said Jesus meant us to ast for hope, forgiveness, and all like that. Ast Hep us not be scared, hep us not...”
“Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.”
“One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best pra...”
“Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but he...”
“I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potters vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.”
“Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the c...”
