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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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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

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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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