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• Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

  S. D Gordon

  Vision, Nerves, Purpose

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• Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Heart, Mean, Doe

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Age, Generations

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Littles, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

  Thomas Brooks

  Names, Soul, Honor

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Believe, Able

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.155

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• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Giving, Ends

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Fit, Answers To Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

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• Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

  John Stott

  Bending, Way, Devices

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.145, SPCK

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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Classroom, Revival, Closets

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• When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.

  A. C. Dixon

  Graduation, Organization, Rely Upon

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Eye, Christian Inspirational, Praying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

  Charles Stanley

  Talking, Want, Quiet

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• The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

  Alexander Whyte

  Men, Giving, World

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• Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Spiritual, Smart, Fire

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• The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

  Hudson Taylor

  Disappointment, Grace, Challenges

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  Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Miracle, Needs, Way

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.26, Zondervan

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• Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

  Alan Redpath

  Kingdoms, Praying, Lord

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• There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

  Adrian Rogers

  Promise, Answers, Problem

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• Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.

  Marianne Williamson

  Change, Fall, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 03, 2011

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• If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

  Stormie Omartian

  Christian, Mean, May

  Stormie Omartian (2012). “The Prayer That Changes Everything®”, p.216, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Morning, Men, Looks

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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