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“The fewer the words the better the prayer.”
“In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.”
“Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.”
“In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
“Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.”
“Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.”
“Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.”
“By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.”
“Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Ch...”
“Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.”
“In the war upon the powers of darkness prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon both in aggressive war upon them and their works in the deliverance of men from their power and against them as a h...”
“Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!”
“Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.”
“By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.”
“No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.”
“Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay...”
“We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.”
“Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.”
“No matter what may be the test God will take care of you Lean weary one upon His breast God will take care of you.”
“Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.”
