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We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… — John Dickinson
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. — Henry David Thoreau
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,… — Alain de Botton
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy
In worship, God imparts himself to us. — C.S. Lewis
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In… — Charles Stanley
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but… — Eugene H. Peterson
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him. — Billy Graham
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent… — Francois Fenelon
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
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for… — Pope John Paul II
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. — Brother Lawrence
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal
If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer. — Reuben Archer Torrey
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
Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than… — Charles Spurgeon
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God… — J I Packer
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom… — John Calvin
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God… — Origen

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