"It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening."
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"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
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"God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray."
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"To pray well is the better half of study."
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"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."
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"If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all."
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"The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed."
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"In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us."
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"Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus."
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"Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch."
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"Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness."
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"It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action."
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"Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act."
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"It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one."
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"Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers."
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"They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it"
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"When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer."
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"He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now."
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"Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you."
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"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully."
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