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Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.

— Bill Hybels Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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As you walk with God, your faith will grow, your confidence will increase and your prayers will have real power.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

If you have pumped your fist at God, the good news is that you can come back into fellowship with him right this minute.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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