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“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
“Amazing things start happening when we start praying!”
“When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.”
“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.”
“The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”
“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.”
“Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.”
“Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.”
“It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.”
“Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”
“The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.”
“Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.”
“It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.”
“The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.”
“It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.”
“He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.”
“Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.”
“Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.”
“Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.”
“Help yourself and heaven will help you.”
