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Persevere In Prayer

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Photo©Michael Seagriff     Won't you agree with me that, if we do not receive what we ask God for, it is because we do not pray with faith, with a sufficiently pure heart, with enough trust, or because we do not persevere in prayer as we should?   God has never denied and never will deny anything to those who ask for his graces in the right way. St. John Marie Vianney     [This is just one of 1200 faith-building quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!- Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct .]

True Faithfulness

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(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) It is easy to be consistent for a day or two.  It is difficult and important to be consistent for one's whole life.  It is easy to be consistent in the hour of enthusiasm; it is difficult to be so in the hour of tribulation.  And only a consistency that lasts throughout the whole of life can be called faithfulness.  Saint John Paul II