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God shapes the world by prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds Purpose in Prayer (1920)

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Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.

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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.

Basil of Caesarea

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."

John F. Kennedy

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