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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,…
- The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of…
- Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
- 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…
- The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,…
- Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
- 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…
- I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near…
- Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
- We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life…
- If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but…
- Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
- We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
- It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man…
- To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
- Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get…
- 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 puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
- I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down…
- It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
- God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness…
- 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…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi