THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER

THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER

 

1. As a mostiure is necessary for the life of plants, to prevent them 4m drying up, so is prayer necessary for our salvation.                             - St Chrysostom
2. Man/woman by prayer merits to receive that which GOd had from all etrnity determinde to give him or her.                                                - St Gregoru
3. As the body without the soul cannot live, so the soul without prayer is ded and emits an offensive odour.                                                 - St Chrysostom
4. Prayer is also called the food of soul, because the body cannot be supported without food; nor can the soul be kept alive without prayer.     - St. Augustine.
5. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance but taking hold of God's willingness.     - Philips Brooks.
6. Prayer is not only "the practice of the presence of God", it is the relazation of His presence.                                                 - Joseph Fort Newton
7. Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the Spirit of God.                                     - Edwin Keith
8. praying is dangerous business. Results do come.   -G. Christi Swan