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“I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America”
John Wesley
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.”
Saint Augustine
“My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.”
Billy Graham
“Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government”
George Washington
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan”
John Bunyan
“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction”
Richard Cecil
“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.”
James Allen
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
Dorothy Bernard
