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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 |
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| | *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 | + | *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 |
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| | *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): |