#prayer

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity. ↗

— John Hawley

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What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer. ↗

— Janet Jackson

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#continuing #creation #exercise #faculties #given

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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