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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

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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.…
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier…
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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…
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.…
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to…

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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy… — Paul of the Cross
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — Florence Nightingale
Without error, there is no brilliancy. — Emanuel Lasker
Without error there can be no brilliancy — Emanuel Lasker
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic… — Walter Pater
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and… — Confucius
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life… — Abraham Kuyper

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