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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

E. Stanley Jones

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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
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