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- There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,…
- Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
- We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and…
- 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…
- Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds…
- Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are…
- Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough…
- Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count…
- The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of…
- Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the…
- Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
- Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless…
- Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
- We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
- Prayer succeeds when all else fails
- Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the…
- Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they…
- Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
- All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
- The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
- The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed,…
- Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
- We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle