Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.

S. D Gordon

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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.

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Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

strong men father

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

forks tuning sound

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

real secret prayer

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

human-heart heart way

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

agency winning men

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

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