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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.…
• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
• if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
• God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier…
• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every…
• Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.…
• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
• 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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