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Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are…

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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him.…
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques…
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is…
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit…
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,…
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires,…
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and…
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they… — Gerald Vann
The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value — Marmaduke Pickthall
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if… — Abraham Lincoln
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — Ludwig von Mises
The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime… — Pope Francis
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns.… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there… — Chinua Achebe

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