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“The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.”

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Thomas Watson (1620-1686), a renowned British author, is known for his profound humanistic concerns and unique literary style, which has had a profound impact on British literature. more

“I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.”

People Thinking Inspirational Feels Different Able Used Song Realizing Grace One Day Luck Who I Am Tension Resolve Different Peoples Different Directions

Author:Edward de Bono

“I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.”

“To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.”

Dream Literature Moral Duty Terror Prosperity Terrorism Provoking Slumber Moral Duty

Author:Ernst Otto Fischer

“There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given.”

People Way Spiritual Given Prayer Conditions Promise Claims Fulfillment Almighty Fulfilling Wholesale

Author:William Henry Drummond

“A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.”

Heart Spiritual Prayer Humility Higher Asking Humble Alms

Book:The Godly Man's Picture

Source: The Godly Man's Picture

“Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.”

Soul Body Desire Names Christ Prayer Offering Animated

Author:Thomas Watson

“Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.”

Heart Prayer Hot Likes Seething

Book:The Christian Soldier

Source: The Christian Soldier

“Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.”

Christ Prayer Grace Weak Saint Bows Thrones Arrows Pierce Intercession

Book:A Body of Divinity

Source: A Body of Divinity

“God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.”

Heart Hands Spiritual Prayer Cases Praying Ears Hunger Hungry Gods Will Spiritual Hunger

Author:Thomas Watson

“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”

Today Tomorrow Late Yesterday Too Late Live For Today

Author:Marcus Aurelius

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