Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one"s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us – they help us learn to endure. And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation. And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.
Romans 5:3-5

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
B. B. Warfield

All prayers are answered if we are willing to admit that sometimes the answer is no.
Author Unknown

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillip Brooks

Every time you trust God's wisdom and do whatever he says, even when you don't understand it, you deepen your friendship with God.
Rick Warren

God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.
Coventry Patmore

God is in the business of restoration, and he"s been doing it for a long, long time. We"re merely his partners, his apprentices. We're working with a pro! Today open your heart and let God's touch bring restoration to those areas of your life that need repair. Then go and touch others with his restoring love.
Amy Nappa

It is not the uniqueness of "Christianity" as a system that we defend, but the uniqueness of Christ. ... So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
John R. W. Stott

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Samuel M. Shoemaker

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Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
J. C. Ryle

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
J. C. Ryle

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin

When my world feels gray and hopeless,
God is doing things for my good and His glory!
Cheri Heffield

Life is uncharted territory.
It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo Buscaglia

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To see God in everything makes life
the greatest adventure there is.
Author Unknown

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden

Faith moves mountains, but you have to
keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason Cooley

Let God"s promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom

Bloom where you are planted.
1 Corinthians 7:17-24

Lord, help me find the way through the changes in my life.
Author Unknown

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We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Brother Lawrence

Someting beautiful. Something good. All my confusion He understood. All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife. But He made something beautiful of my life
Bill & Gloria Gaither

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.
Henry Knox Sherrill

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Samuel M. Shoemaker

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

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Christians have their share of troubles, disappointments, and sorrows. But all the time, in the midst of these, they have a secret peace of which the world knows nothing.
Author Unknown

Rejoice in knowing that you belong to God and that He is conforming you to the image of His Son. See every event of this day as part of that process. Yield to the Spirit"s prompting, and take heart that God will accomplish His will.