This quote is from my book The First Time I Rode a Freight Train & other hitchhiking stories, page 51:
“‘The monastic way is very different. Obedience, fasting and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real, true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God’s help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.'”
[excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Book VI, “The Russian Monk”]
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“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
“Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don’t want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of ‘good time’ is seldom in sync with ours.”
― Oswald Chambers
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“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“It is possible to know all about doctrine and still not know Jesus. A person’s soul is in grave danger when the knowledge of doctrine surpasses Jesus, avoiding intimate touch with Him.”
–Oswald Chambers
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Missionary Quotations: Hudson Taylor
Where Have All the Monks Gone
New Testament Circumcision
Paga (Intercession)
Obedience: The Bondage Breaker
The Road 
I have never hitchhiked but I fast regularly and live a life of prayer. Having learned that discipline and practicing it has led me to a most adventurous life! God does amazing things when His people fast and pray! Keep on in the way – God has much work to be done.
Fasting, in my life, is fasting from the world system and from false Christianity.
The Lord told me to go on two 3-day fasts where I fasted from food—that was a number of years ago. One of the 3-day fasts was for revelation and the other fast was to break some demonic bondage. Fasting and prayer is a very powerful lifestyle.
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