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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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Prayer 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.
Prayer0Besides public ordinances, we should give ourselves to spiritual exercises in secret.
All the time we can spare from our necessary, civil, and natural actions should be employed in calling to mind what we have seen, heard, or felt of God.
Time, Free Time0One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Prayer0We are continually thinking of whatsoever we love.
Love causes the soul to be more where it loves than where it lives.
Works 7:479Thinking, Love0Works 7:479
A child of God findeth a greater treasure in one chapter of the Bible than worldly men in all their lands and honours and large revenues.
Scripture, Treasure0You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.
Works 7:147Sin0Works 7:147
If 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.
Prayer0God 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.
Systematic Theology A LecturePrayer0Systematic Theology A Lecture
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
N/APrayer0N/A
The church is live a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power.
Church0Prayer 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.
Ten Commandments, 239Prayer0Ten Commandments, 239
All 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.
Prayer0God gave the Spirit to the rest of the apostles, but he gave the purse to the son of perdition.
Money, Holy Spirit0A 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.
Prayer0What a man delights in he will be talking of.
Works 7:476Discussion, Talk0Works 7:476
The whole work of sanctification, from its first step to its last period, is all of grace, all must be ascribed to God's free goodness.
Sanctification, Grace0To own and stand up for a hated and despised truth will bring more comfort to our souls than all the pleasure the wicked have in their sensual delights.
Delight, Soul, Truth0The devil seeks to weaken our opinion of God's goodness.
God's Goodness, Satan0I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
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