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Once more, one who lives in the spirit of prayer will spend much time in retired and intimate communion with God. It is by such a deliberate engagement of prayer that the fresh springs of devotion which flow through the day are fed. For, although communion with God is the life-energy of the renewed nature, our souls "cleave to the dust" and devotion tends to grow formal- it becomes emptied of its spiritual content, and exhausts itself in outward acts. The Master reminds us of this grave peril, and informs us that the true defense against insincerity in our approach to God lies in the diligent exercise of private prayer. ↗

— David Macintyre

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Keep on the watch and pray ↗

— Jehovah

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God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. ↗

— Philip Yancey

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I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer: the soul's colloquy with the Creator, mortal man's dialogue with the Deity: with magical incantation and the ritual of the 'spell. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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love the people God gave you because He will need them back one day. ↗

— Becky Kinder

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Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured. ↗

— Rick Warren

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

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Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. ↗

— Alistair Begg

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