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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you living for the things you are praying for? — Austin Phelps
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top. — Benjamin Franklin
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course… — Thomas Jefferson
You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State… — Albert J. Nock
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God,… — Oswald Chambers
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble… — Martin Luther
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the… — C.S. Lewis
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and… — Charles Spurgeon
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not… — Edward McKendree Bounds
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such… — John Bunyan
We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or… — John Bunyan
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He… — Oswald Chambers
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that… — Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. — Oswald Chambers
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in… — Oswald Chambers

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