Ekua Aidoo

God is the strength of my heart, & my portion forever. - Psalm 73:26

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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs!

⏤ Jonathan Edwards

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The Word of God is like a rich gem, multifaceted and inexhaustible.

⏤ A.W. Tozer

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The greatest enemy to conquer is the traitor within.

⏤ Richard Sibbes

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The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
⏤ Jeremiah 17:9

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True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

⏤ Charles Spurgeon

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Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
⏤ Matthew 22:37

The heart must be undivided, entirely focused on God, to be aflame with holy love.

— Thomas Watson

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The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.

— Samuel Chadwick

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Watch unto prayer.
1 Peter 4:7

This we do know, that the prayerless life is a powerless life. A prayerless life may be a noisy life, and fuss around a great deal; but such a life is far removed from Him who, by day and night, prayed to God.
—Selected

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Let us pass over unto the other side
- Mark 4:35

“With Christ in the vessel,
I smile at the storm.”

Christ said, “Let us go to the other side”—not to the middle of the lake to be drowned.

—Dan Crawford

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But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
⏤ Hebrews 11:6

Faith begins where reason ends.

— John Calvin

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To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

⏤ Karl Barth

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The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

— E. M. Bounds

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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

⏤ Hudson Taylor

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My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will look up.
⏤ Psalm 5:3

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.

⏤ F.B. Meyer

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The Christian life is one of gratitude. A heart that is constantly overflowing with thankfulness is a heart close to God.

⏤ A.W. Tozer

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[It is of] the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
⏤ Lamentations 3:22-23

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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
⏤ Hebrews 12:2

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

— Oswald Chambers

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God’s answer to the human situation is never something but someone.

— John Stott

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

⏤ Martin Luther

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A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God.
⏤ Psalm 90:1-2