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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil
Christian, Patience, Prayer

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Richard Cecil
Prayer, Writing, Twenties

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Richard Cecil
Christian, Prayer, Hours

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Richard Cecil
Prayer, Children, Father
Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1850). “Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt”, p.309

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

Richard Cecil
Prayer, Thinking, Soul
Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1850). “Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt”, p.309

Prayer is faith passing into action.

Richard Cecil
Prayer, Action, Passing

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Richard Cecil
Prayer, Men, Soul

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