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prayer is not compounded of words, words that may fail to express what
one desires to say, words that so often cloak inconsistencies, words
that may have no deeper source than the physical organs of speech, words
that may be spoken to impress mortal ears. The dumb may pray, and that
too with the eloquence that prevails in heaven. Prayer is made up of
heart throbs and the righteous yearnings of the soul, of supplication
based on the realization of need, of contrition and pure desire. If
there lives a man who has never really prayed, that man is a being apart
from the order of the divine in human nature, a stranger in the family
of God's children. Prayer is for the uplifting of the supplicant. God without our prayers would be God; but we without prayer cannot be admitted to the kingdom of God. So did Christ instruct: "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." —James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ, p. 238 Guidance means I can count on God. Have character—Don't be one! It's what you do when you have nothing to do that
The Lord doesn't take us into deep water to As the momma whale said to the baby whale, "It's only
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