Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Matthew Henry

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.  I love God’s law with all my heart.  But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind.  This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.  Oh, what a miserable person I am!  Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?  Thank God!  The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 7:21-25
The New Living Translation

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God.  He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

A. W. Tozer

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The reason why our public life is so disordered and our private life so hampered by anxiety is because we will not be still and know God.

A. Maude Royden

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

Mark 9:23
The New King James Version

Determine to want what God wants.

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If there is anything in this life which sustains a wise man and induces him to maintain his serenity amidst the tribulations and adversities of the world, it is in the first place, I consider, the meditation and knowledge of the Scriptures.

Jerome

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!  Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.  Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.  For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods.  In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also.  The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

Psalm 95:1-5
The New King James Version

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas à Kempis

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Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim.  For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

Seraphim of Sarov

Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.  And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 7:14-18
The King James Version

Everyone has at least one sermon in him.

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I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other.  For what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open.

Seneca

Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.  And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need.  These are the sacrifices that please God.

Hebrews 13:15-16
The New Living Translation

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

The Book of Common Prayer

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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa.  As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem!  Have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.”

2 Chronicles 20:20
The New International Version

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.

Thomas Aquinas

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Forsake thyself, resign thyself, and thou shalt enjoy great inward peace.

Thomas à Kempis

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29
The English Standard Version

Would you see true beauty?  Look at the pious man or woman in whom spirit dominates matter; watch him when he prays, when a ray of the divine beauty glows upon him when his prayer is ended; you will see the beauty of God shining in his face.

Girolamo Savonarola

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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking.  To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking.  Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Norman Vincent Peale

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 29:2
The New Revised Standard Version

With God, even when nothing is happening—something is happening.

Reuben Welch

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Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right.  The former look to the end, to judge of the act.  Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

Joseph Hall

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord!  Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old.

Isaiah 51:9
The New King James Version

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence.  Grandmother was that person to me.

Phyllis Theroux

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The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Charles L. Allen

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury.  Many rich people threw in large amounts.  But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.  Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.  They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:41-44
The New International Version

Be sober, as God’s athlete.  The prize is incorruption and life eternal.

Ignatius of Antioch

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