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Evangelist R. A. Torrey on Prayer

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services, but few conversions; much machinery, but few results.

—R. A. Torrey, American evangelist (1856–1928)

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