Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - Charles Spurgeon

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All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

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Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

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You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. -- Pope Francis

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Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon

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Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. - Charles Spurgeon

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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

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