Whoever spends only five minutes a day in prayer at home will hardly have any interest in praying fifty minutes with the church!

— Wolfgang Bühne (b. 1946), Buchhändler, Autor, Evangelist und Verleger

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When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
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Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.
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To pray is to draw breath from God.
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You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray before you have prayed!
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Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
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