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Search and filter quotations Previous page · Page 248 of 402 · Next page “Prayer is the language of the poor in spirit.” Open quotation “Prayer is the most powerful weapon, the most neglected responsibility, the most opposed warfare, and the most far-reaching ministry in the Christian life.” Open quotation “Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity.” Open quotation “Surely revival delays because prayer decays.” Open quotation “The Church has many interferers, but few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters.” Open quotation “The Church has many organizers, but few agonizers; many who pay, but few who pray.” Open quotation “The Church has many wrestlers, but few wrestlers; many fears, but few tears; much fashion, little passion.” Open quotation “The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.” Open quotation “The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.” Open quotation “The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.” Open quotation “The only reason we do not have revival is because we are willing to live without it.” Open quotation “The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying.” Open quotation “The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. If the fires go out in the boiler room of the church, the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold.” Open quotation “The pulpit can be a shop-window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.” Open quotation “The secret of praying is praying in secret.” Open quotation “The self-satisfied do not want to pray. The self-sufficient do not need to pray. The self-righteous cannot pray.” Open quotation “The smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere.” Open quotation “The tragedy of today is that the Church is pursuing happiness, not holiness.” Open quotation Previous page · Page 248 of 402 · Next page
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