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“It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worsh...”
“Prayer is helplessness plus faith.”
“...to many of us prayer is more like talking to a chocolate pudding than participating in an amazing relationship with a living being.”
“Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. ”
“I delight to come to my bearings,not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,not to live in this restless, nervo...”
“... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. ”
“If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)”
“Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.”
“A Christian who understands the power of prayer, and lives a just life has power because of prayer and righteousness.”
“Both of these attitudes -- unrelenting listlessness and dogged good cheer -- have to yield to the realities of prayer and life if the relationship with God is to grow and spiritual direction be hel...”
“Once I am aware of what has been on my mind and have established ways to respond in faith with a particular prayer, sacred word, or silence before God, my anxious thoughts lose a great deal of thei...”
“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall ...”
“Battles are won in the Prayer Room!”
“Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17-- "Sanctify them in the truth; thy Word is truth.”
“Prayer isn't an excuse to sin.”
“O God, thank you for the miracle of new beginning life. Bless the mothers, and let them know that you are ever with them throughout their pregnancies, labors, and deliveries. Bless those eagerly aw...”
“God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seekin...”
“God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him work for them. The gospel is not a Help Wanted ad. Neither is the call to to Christian service. On...”
“An ordinary method will never produce extraordinary expectation of a prayer life.”
“Successful prayer life only dies after its habit dies.”
