Prayer Quotes - Page 21

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  Adam Clarke

  Heart, Christian Inspirational, Tongue

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

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• He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Life, Dear God

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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• A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Cages, Wild At Heart

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.162, New Directions Publishing

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• God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

  John Masefield

  Heart, Men, Hands

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

  John Climacus

  Silence, Secret, Lovers

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.159, Paulist Press

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• It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Use, Arguing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (18??). “Spurgeon's Sermons: Being Twelve of the Most Memorable Sermons Ever Delivered”

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• Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

  Francis Spellman

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

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• I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Listening, Phrases, Praying

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.95, BookBaby

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• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Christian, Believe, People

  Royal Gould Wilder, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Arthur Tappan Pierson, James Manning Sherwood (1898). “The Missionary Review of the World”

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• Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Littles, Denied

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Peace, Heart

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• Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

  Austin O'Malley

  Shoes, Knees, Praying

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• Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Weakness, Divine

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.285, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I believe in miracles . . . prayers that are answered and healing hands.

  John McLeod

  Believe, Healing, Hands

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• Without worship, we go about miserable.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

  Tad R. Callister

  Life, Marriage, Tests

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• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sleep, Men, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Good Day, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

  Joyce Meyer

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

  Francois Fenelon

  Work, Ought, Answers To Prayer

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• Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Yield, Effort, Our Prayers

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Cancer, Optimism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mean, Men, Sublime

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

  Byron Katie

  Love, Appreciation, Desire

  Twitter post from May 30, 2013

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• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian Inspirational, Trying, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

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