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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

Topics: Prayer, Men, Praying, Missions And Prayer, Christian Prayer

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Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

Topics: Easter, New Life, Kids Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

Topics: Prayer, Vision, Nerves, Revival Prayer

Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.

Topics: Christian, Running, Jesus

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

Topics: Jesus, Men, Language, Jesus Christ Easter

Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

Topics: Self, Listening, Faces, Steadfastness, Readiness

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

Topics: Christian, Heart, Religion, Heart Failure

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Topics: Prayer, Purpose, Doe, Intercessory Prayer, Intercessors

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

Topics: Prayer, Winning, Blow, Lenten

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

Topics: Jesus, Prayer, Names, Insisting, Victor's

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Topics: Prayer, Praying, Inspirational Prayer, Sacrifice To God, Christian Prayer

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

Topics: Prayer, Two, Four

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

Topics: Prayer, Important, Purpose

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.

Topics: Prayer, Blow, Winning

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.

Topics: Prayer, Believe, Taken

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Topics: Motivation, Inspiration, Men

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

Topics: Men, Winning, Agency, Intercession, Defeating The Enemy

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

Topics: Heart, Way, Humans

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

Topics: Prayer, Should, Lenten

If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

Topics: Prayer, Simple, Joy, Childlike, Scruples

Let there be no limit to what we take to God in prayer, so that there may be no limit to God's reign and rule in all of life. - Roger Hazelton Jesus is God spelling himself out in language that man can understand.

Topics: Jesus, Prayer, Godly

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.

Topics: Prayer, Mean, Men

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

Topics: Prayer, Real, Secret, Real Victory

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

Topics: Doubt, Blind, Deaf

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

Topics: Men, Hands, Giving

Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.

Topics: Lying, Book, Passion, Daily Habits, Discernment

Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

Topics: Strong, Father, Men, Strong Man, Cobblers

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