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“Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.”

“Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.”

Knows Way Prayer Gains Hatred Pity Temptation Shock Deliverance

Author:John Owen

“Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.”

Happens Prayer Sin Grace Sacrifice Fields Discipline Essentials Gains Dues Confession Sacraments

Author:Lou Holtz

“While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful.”

“If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.”

Ifs Persons Grows Prayer Wise Gains Wiser Intercourse Inner Life Learned Person

Author:Huldrych Zwingli

“Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself”

Needs Helping Desire Prayer Effort Gains Painful Revival God Help Revival Prayer Revival In America

Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer.”

Ifs Desire Purpose Energy Natural Prayer Simple Praying Taste Gains Increase Acquire Sensibility

Book:Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

Source: Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”

Source: CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.”

Ends Done Faces Force Can Do Prayer Gains All Things Overcoming Bounds Obstacles Remove Invincible Resisting Hindrance Importunate

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.”

Heart Soul Matter Dies Prayer Conditions Praying Gains Presses Perseverance Bounds Quitting Vain Repeats Repetition Urgent Our Prayers Heart And Soul

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.”

Wisdom Lasts Spiritual Joy Born Prayer Greater Feet Sorrow Gains Difficulty Increase Intense Endeavor Mastery Our Prayers Ripe Obstruction Joys And Sorrows

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.”