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God Values Sincere Heart Over Eloquent Prayer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 2.

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God Values Sincere Heart Over Eloquent Prayer

REMEMBER that God is no curious or critical observer of the plain expressions that fall from his poor children when they are in their closet duties; ’tis not a flow of words, or studied notions, seraphic expressions, or elegant phrases in prayer, which take the ear, or delight the heart, of God, or open the gate of glory, or bring down the best of blessings upon the soul; but uprightness, holiness, heavenliness, spirituality, and brokenness of heart—these are the things that make a conquest upon God, and turn most to the soul’s account.