Ole Hallesby Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Pouring, Woe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

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  God, Faith, Christian

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

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  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

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  Prayer, Helping, Remember

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, May, Praying

• To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Exercise

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Moving

• As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

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  Morning, Prayer, Noon

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

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  Prayer, Heart, Effects

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.

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  Prayer, Dawn, Done

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Struggle, Soul And Body

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

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  Prayer, Fate, Solitude

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

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  Prayer, Answers, Praying

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

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  Prayer, Praying, Inseparable

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Children, Night

• Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Opportunity, Important

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

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  Prayer, Heaven, Earth

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

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  Prayer, Real, Secret

• As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

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  Prayer, Fall, Winter

• It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

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  Prayer, Soul, Quiet

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.

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  Prayer, Struggle, Mean

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

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  Prayer, Needs, Safe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Doctors, Firsts

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