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Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.
– Billy Graham

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  5. Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen. – Benedictine prayer
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