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title: 'Plumer on the Value of Prayer'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-08-22
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-plumer-on-the-value-of-prayer
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# Plumer on the Value of Prayer

“It is not possible to over-estimate the value of prayer. For more than thirty-five years I have had much intercourse with dying saints and sinners of various ages and conditions. In all that time I have not heard one express regret that he had spent too much time in prayer; I have heard many mourn that they had so seldom visited the throne of grace.” — [**William S. Plumer**](/authors/william-swan-plumer), “Prayer Shown to be Efficacious” in Samuel I. Prime, *The Power of Prayer: The New York Revival of* 1858 (1859)