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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

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May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our sa...more

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For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to ask whatever may come to their min...more

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And indeed we must seek the true rule of prayer in the word of God, that we may not rashly break through to Him, but may approach him in the manner in...more

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In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervo...more

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Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.