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We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
— E Stanley Jones
Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
— John Newton
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
— Kevin DeYoung
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
— JC Ryle
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
— Elisabeth Elliot
But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
When the will of God crosses the will of man, somebody has to die.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.
— Elisabeth Elliot