"Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart."
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"The prayer that is faithless is fruitless."
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"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires."
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"Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come."
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"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."
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"To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal."
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"Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God."
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"Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me."
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"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit."
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"I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer."
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"There's no law that says that you cannot be a spiritual person and a sexual person. In fact, if you have the right consciousness, sex is like a prayer. It can be a divine experience. So why do they have to be disassociated with one another?"
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"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things you do not have, you will obtain results much faster."
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"Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language."
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"A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire."
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"Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly""
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"One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place."
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"When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live."
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"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."
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"Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education."
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"By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease."
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