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“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Hi...”
“A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.”
“You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.”
“When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.”
“God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”
“Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.”
“The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.”
“Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.”
“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”
“Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.”
“Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.”
“Without faith it is impossible to please God for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.”
“When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.”
“Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.”
“Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them whi...”
“Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?”
“It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.”
“Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.”
“I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.”
“Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.”
