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Frank Laubach Quotes: The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.
         

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.


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The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.



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Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.



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If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.



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