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  Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

  Billy Graham

  Two, Way, Conversation

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Church, Change For The Better

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Believe, Moving, Hands

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1848). “Sermons”, p.381

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• We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.307, Discovery House

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• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, One Line, Can Do

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Evil, World, Shapes

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• Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Suffering, Heard

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Work

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, May

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.266, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Strong, Made, Word Of God

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

  Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

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• The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Lasts, Praying

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.220, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Christian Inspirational, Process

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Teacher, Gratitude, Writing

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• As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Shoes, Clothes

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• Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Exercise

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.312, Discovery House

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• The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Knees, I Have Learned

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• Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pay, Requirements, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.151, YWAM Publishing

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• The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

  Vance Havner

  Church, Thermometers, Meetings

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• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Order, Giving, May

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

  Paul Billheimer

  People, Doe, Care

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• The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Humble, Thinking, Darkness

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

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• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Golf, Funny Golf

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.143, B&H Publishing Group

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

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