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Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

— Ellen G. White Steps to Christ (1892)

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If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

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