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Wisdom to Meditate On
...on prayer...
Prayer
is God's appointed way for obtaining things, and the great
secret of all lack in our experience, in our life, and in
our work is neglect of prayer.
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- Reuben Archer
Torrey: How To Pray
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'Why
is it ... that the Church of Christ makes so little headway
against unbelief and error and sin and worldliness?' 'Neglect
of prayer. You have not because you ask not.'
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- Reuben Archer
Torrey: How To Pray
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The
best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything
else but a cry.
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- Charles Spurgeon
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Prayer, in every care and anxiety and need of life, with
thanksgiving, is the means God has appointed for our
obtaining freedom from all anxiety, and the peace of God
which passeth all understanding.
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- Reuben
Archer Torrey: How to Pray
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams
of.
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- Alfred Lord
Tennyson
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of
containing the gift of God Himself.
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- Unknown
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
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- Abraham
Lincoln
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Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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- E. M.
Bounds
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Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but
trembles when we pray.
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- Unknown:
The Kneeling Christian
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...on devotion to God...
This is the business of our life. By labor and prayer to
advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height
of perfection which, with clean hearts, we may behold
God.
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- St.
Augustine
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...it
would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong,
but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about
with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered
us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud
pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by
the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased.
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- C.S. Lewis:
The Weight of Glory
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A key secret of those who finish well is to focus more on
loving Jesus than avoiding sin.
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- Kenneth Boa:
Conformed to His Image
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Thou hast prompted him, that he should delight to praise
thee, for thou hast made us for thyself and restless is
our heart until it comes to rest in thee
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- Augustine of
Hippo: Confessions
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...on ministry...
It
was this surrender and subordination of intellect and genius
to the divine and spiritual forces which made Paul peerless
among the apostles.
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- E. M. Bounds
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...
he will use his intellect best who cultivates his heart
most.
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- E. M. Bounds
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The
greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus Christ is service
for Him... The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction
of God, not a call to do something for Him.
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- Oswald Chambers:
My Utmost for His Highest
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...etc...
And
so it is that the rich prize friendship as their glory,
the exiles as their native land, the poor as their wealth,
the sick as their medicine, the dead as their life, the
healthy as their charm, the weak as their strength and the
strong as their prize.
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- Aelred of Rievaulx:
Spiritual Friendship
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I think, Lord, that we're all afraid of werewolves - not
afraid of being destroyed by one - afraid of being
one...
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- Rich Mullins
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So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get
beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're
dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna
matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you
didn't live.
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- Rich Mullins
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The pain, now, is part of the happiness, then. That's the
deal.
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- C.S. Lewis
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Get outta' here...
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