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Prayer Quotes by George MacDonald
- [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone…
- The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
- "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves,…
- Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
- My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
- Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
- He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give…
- If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he…
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- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
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