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Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Christianity, Religion0Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
Prayer0I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Prayer0The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
God's Love0One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Prayer0I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they're not true. And whenever their weakness is exposed, the people who prefer tyranny make capital out of the exposure. I find that they're not true without looking further than myself. I don't deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation.
Government, Governance, Democracy0When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
Truth, Societey0If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.
Prayer0Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
Tyranny, Government0God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited.
Chronological Snobbery0Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Education0Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.
Prayer0What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Pride0All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Prayer0I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Prayer0The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Prayer0Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Prayer0There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
God's Goodness0You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
Truth, Trials0Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Christianity, Religion0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
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