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Prayer Quotes by Francois Fenelon
- God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent…
- Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
- I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
- Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
- Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
- Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
- Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed…
- To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
- To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
- Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
- True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father…
- Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
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