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Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.
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And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
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No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
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But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.
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Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.
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Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
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It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.
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If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
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Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
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Alexander Whyte
Born:
January 13, 1836
Died:
January 6, 1921
(aged 84)
Bio:
Rev Alexander Whyte was a Scottish divine. He was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire and educated at the University of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh.
Known for:
BUNYAN CHARACTERS (1893)
Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer
Jacob Behmen, An Appreciation (1894)
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