“All Christ’s public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. ” His last breath,” says Philip Henry, “was praying breath.”
– JR MacDuff
“The Elements of Prayer:
Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.
Its use: to turn our will to His will.
Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things”
Julian of Norwich
“Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men”
E.M. Bounds
“The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it”
– F.W. Robertson
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good”
– Romans 12:21
“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God”
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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