Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

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""Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.""

- E.M. Bounds

Awareness

""The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it.""

- E.M. Bounds

Awareness

""Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.""

- E.M. Bounds

Belief

""To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God is the highway to backsliding.""

- E.M. Bounds

Balance

""Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

Integrity

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"In a sense, your small and simple sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting of your life. You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now. Trust in God, and ‘out of small things [will come] that which is great’ [Doctrine and Covenants 64:33]."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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"With God all things are possible."

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"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

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"Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’"

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"Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’"

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