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“Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.”
“A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.”
“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.”
“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 while ot...”
“Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?”
“Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.”
“Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."”
“Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.”
“Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.”
“Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.”
“Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.”
“Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.”
“Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.”
“Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.”
“Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.”
“Prayer is an all-efficient panoply a treasure undiminished a mine which is never exhausted a sky unobscured by clouds a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root the fountain the mother of a th...”