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Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.

— 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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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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