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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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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away…
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made…
— John McLeod
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We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We…
— Robert Twigger
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By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but…
— William Osler
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Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers…
— Pythagoras
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Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind,…
— Paul Di Filippo
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