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*Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther
 
*Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther
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*In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - John Bunyan
    
*Refusal to pray is passive rebellion against God, "in whose hand thy breathe is." - Anonymous
 
*Refusal to pray is passive rebellion against God, "in whose hand thy breathe is." - Anonymous
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*All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. - Stephen Charnock
 
*All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. - Stephen Charnock
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*The best prayers have often more groans than words.- John Bunyan
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*Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. - Hannah More
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*The best prayers have often more groans than words. - John Bunyan
    
*Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing. - Charles G. Finney
 
*Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing. - Charles G. Finney
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*Oh, what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh, what an unspeakable privilege is prayer! - Lady Maxwell
 
*Oh, what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh, what an unspeakable privilege is prayer! - Lady Maxwell
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Perhaps the most noted author on prayer is the late Methodist minister [[E. M. Bounds]] (1835 - 1913):   
 
Perhaps the most noted author on prayer is the late Methodist minister [[E. M. Bounds]] (1835 - 1913):   
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