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“An agnostic found himself in trouble and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest " his friend replie...”
“Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill they come only when they hurt.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.”
“He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.”
“Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
“All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.”
“Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.”
“When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
“Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.”
“Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is no...”
“Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.”
“He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.”
“Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.”
“Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives”
“And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.”
“My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
“We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.”
“She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.”
“None can pray well but he that lives well.”
