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“When praying for healing ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters the healing of the heart enabling us to trust God simply ...”
“Most people do not pray they only beg.”
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.”
“Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.”
“Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its brea...”
“God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.”
“A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.”
“Ask in faith.”
“If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.”
“He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.”
“Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.”
“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”
“When we make self the end of prayer it is not worship but self-seeking.”
“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.”
“Pray for one another.”
“Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of t...”
“He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.”
“Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must qu...”
“We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day "God give them each Thy blessing. They need it because they live with me and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much...”
“Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.”
