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“Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth."”
“For we know not what we should pray for.”
“Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.”
“Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know as yet very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is then pray for the ...”
“God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.”
“To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.”
“I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.”
“O Lord attend unto my cry.”
“The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.”
“When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed....”
“Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.”
“Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”
“The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.”
“Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.”
“O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.”
“Spread out your petition before God and then say "Thy will not mine be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.”
“Show me your ways O Lord teach me your paths guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long.”
“The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.”
“If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.”
“God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.”
