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Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"; God always answers with what we need.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

Pray for one another.

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Pray to God, at the beginning of all thy works, that so thou mayest bring them all to a good ending.

Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Prayer and provender hinder no man's journey.

Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream of glory on the consecrated hour of man, in audience with the Deity; who worships the great God, that instant joins the first in heaven, and sets his foot on hell.

Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.


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