"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine."
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"Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence."
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"The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable."
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"We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world. Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit."
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."
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"Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love."
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"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."
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"Attentiveness is the heart of prayer."
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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."
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"The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer."
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"In worship, God imparts himself to us."
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"The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become."
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"That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days."
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"The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God."
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"Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing."
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"Before prayer changes others, it first changes us."
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"Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there."
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"Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware."
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"We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs."
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"Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you."
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