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“Listen my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are ...”
“The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.”
“Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.”
“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”
“God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge but still within His love and power.”
“An agnostic found himself in trouble and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest " his friend replied...”
“Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill they come only when they hurt.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not ...”
“But thou when thou prayest enter into thy room and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father who is in secret and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”
“When you enter your secret chamber take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to ge...”
“There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.”
“Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.”
“Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.”
“Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.”
“Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely lovingly confidently and simply as your heart dictates.”
“The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly but it is slowly learnt by heart.”
“God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.”
“Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.”
“God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.”
