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> [Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/prayer-brings-to-us-blessings-which-we-need-and-which-only-god-can/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

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> [Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/prayer-brings-to-us-blessings-which-we-need-and-which-only-god-can-2/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

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## More by Gerhard Tersteegen

> [As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/as-long-as-we-want-to-be-different-from-what-god-wants-us-to-be-at/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/he-brings-to-naught-destroys-and-rejects-all-that-is-not-his-own-work/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/a-god-comprehended-is-no-god-ein-begriffener-gott-ist-kein-gott/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/to-walk-before-god-and-in-his-presence-is-the-ground-and-the-costly/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/let-none-however-difficult-the-circumstances-consider-himself-as/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/be-not-afraid-though-every-stay-should-fail-or-be-removed-away-and/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/prayer-brings-to-us-blessings-which-we-need-and-which-only-god-can/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/your-own-self-will-and-anxiety-your-hurry-and-labor-disturb-your/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [The love ofChrist is my prayer-book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/the-love-ofchrist-is-my-prayer-book/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

> [Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-tersteegen/prayer-brings-to-us-blessings-which-we-need-and-which-only-god-can-2/)

[Gerhard Tersteegen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-tersteegen/)

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