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Letter "P" » Prayer
«Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.»
«The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world»
«The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.»
«They said: O Shu'aib! does your prayer enjoin you that we should forsake what our fathers worshipped or that we should not do what we please with regard to our property? Forsooth you are the forbearing, the right-directing one.»
«So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Matthew 21:22)»
«The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. (Psalms 6:9)»
«Then what prayer or what supplication so ever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house. (2 Chronicles 6:29)»
«The greatest prayer is patience»
«The prayers of the wicked won't prevail.»
«The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.»