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“And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday”
“I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and n...”
“Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.”
“Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.”
“The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer i...”
“God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.”
“Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.”
“Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.”
“Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestig...”
“A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advanci...”
“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men a...”
“God is the only one who listens to her... she is the prototype of the devout woman who perseveres in prayer, convinced that it will be heard... How many favours each of us could tell of if we recal...”
“The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for, as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of...”
“He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head under the water and drank deep, with his cheek against the cold...”
“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.”
“There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: "From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Go...”
“We touch the last reality directly in prayer.”
“Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before You today. For every hour, every second, thousands of men leave this world and their sou...”
“I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.”
“I thank you, God, who lives always, and Who, as i awaken, has in mercy returned my soul to me; we can ever trust in you.”
