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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers.…
• The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate…
• Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most…
• Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how…
• Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer,…
• God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not…
• God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but…
• Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the…
• When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
• When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall…
• Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is…

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