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I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried, secret lingerings in prayer.
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Reported in Wright L. Lassiter, The Power of Prayer (2005), p. xiv.

 

J. Sidlow Baxter

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