“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.”

— J. Sidlow Baxter

Reported in Charlie Jones, Bob Kelly, The Tremendous Power of Prayer (2000) p. 46.

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Australian theologian 1903–1999

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