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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.…
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The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier…
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every…
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.…
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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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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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it…
— Samuel Johnson
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
— Hosea Ballou
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We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret…
— C.S. Lewis
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Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that…
— Griffith John
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In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been…
— David Brainerd
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Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit…
— Paul Billheimer
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Weigh what loss your honor may sustain If with too credent ear you list his songs, Or lose your heart, or your…
— William Shakespeare
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