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“The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.”
“Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in...”
“If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano operate a computer or fly an airplane it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance...”
“All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God not a multitude of words heaped together.”
“Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.”
“You need not cry very loud he is nearer to us than we think.”
“Pray if thou canst with hope but ever pray though hope be weak or sick with long delay pray in the darkness if there be no light and if for any wish thou dare not pray then pray to God to cast...”
“Rejoice always pray constantly and in all circumstances give thanks.”
“God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.”
“Prayer can assume very different forms from quiet blessed contemplation of God in which eye meets eye in restful meditation to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder joy gratitude or ado...”
“Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards...”
“To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.”
“O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.”
“Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.”
“He prays best who does not know that he is praying.”
“Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.”
“When you cannot pray as you would pray as you can.”
“The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.”
“If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.”
“Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.”
