Duane S. Manuel

“Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.”
― Anonymous, ESV Reader's Bible

“There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,         and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.     And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,         the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,         the Spirit of counsel and might,         the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.     And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.     He shall not judge by what his eyes see,         or decide disputes by what his ears hear,     but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,         and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;     and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,         and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.     Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,         and faithfulness the belt of his loins.”
― Crossway, ESV Reader's Bible

“We can pray against God’s will, as Moses did, to enter the Promised Land; as Paul did about the thorn in the flesh; as David did for his doomed child; as Hezekiah did to live. We must pray against God’s will three times when the stroke is the heaviest, the sorrow is the keenest, and the grief is the deepest. We may lie prostrate all night, as David did, through the hours of darkness. We may pray for hours, as Jesus did, and in the darkness of many nights, not measuring the hours by the clock, nor the nights by the calendar. It must all be, however, the prayer of submission.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

“We often end praying just where we ought to begin. We quit praying when God waits and is waiting for us to really pray.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Complete Collection of E. M. Bounds on Prayer