"Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness."

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Source : Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

Ole Hallesby

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“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”

Source : Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.209, Random House
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“I still consider myself a feminist.”
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