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"You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear."
"The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father."
"Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world."
"When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you."
"Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'"
"When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer."
"To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees."
"The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps."
"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage."
"As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."
"The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is."
"Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying."
"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."
"As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh."
"Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray."
"Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection."
"Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian."
"We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God"
"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard."
