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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it…
— Bertolt Brecht
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness;…
— Teresa of Avila
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one…
— Caryll Houselander
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He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
— H.G. Wells
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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best,…
— Frederick Buechner
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who…
— Mary MacLane
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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
— Frances Cornford
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from…
— Violet Trefusis
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