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R. A. Torrey Quotes: We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
         

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.


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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.



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Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.



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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.



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The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.



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Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.





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