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“The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy greater intellectual vigor moral stamina and a deeper understanding of the realitie...”
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician I have seen men after all other therapy had failed lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in...”
“Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production distribution and administration and many are discovering that one of the greatest of a...”
“One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.”
“There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.”
“To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.”
“God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.”
“Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.”
“It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
“It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man look...”
“Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
“'Mr. President I am praying for you. 'Which way Senator?'”
“Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.”
“We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.”
“The fewer the words the better the prayer.”
“The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.”
“In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.”
“Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come ...”
“Praying is learned by praying.”
“The only way to pray is to pray and the way to pray well is to pray much.”
