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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a
bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely
by answering them.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than
on the knees of your trousers.
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As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
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When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and
stop counting sheep.
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Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we
respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
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When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than
your words without heart.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be
prayer and becomes correspondence.
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go
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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
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Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the
beginning of prayer.
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What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and
two not make four.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be
willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things,
and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they
think the whole thing is a fraud.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of
need.
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Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit
of God.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too
small to be made into a burden.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
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No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the
devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure
changes you for things.
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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in
prayer.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the
difficulties.
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Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they
come only when they hurt.
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And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we
pray.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that
we may not unsay them in our practice.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a
gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but
himself.
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What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done,
but that He approve ours.
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We must move from asking God to take care of the things
that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are
breaking His heart.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives
away perplexity and trouble.
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The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us,
but that we will hear Him.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I
prayed with my legs.
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Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you
listen to God.
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Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when,
whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is
no
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We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask
Himself if He were praying.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God
knows best what is good for us.
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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
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God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit
them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand
them back to us to be resubmitted.
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Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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