Answers To Prayer Quotes

• There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Gun, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Prayer, Answers, Wiser

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Religion

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Attitude, Good Christian

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

  John G. Lake

  Prayer, Differences, Praying

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.154, Whitaker House

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• You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.

  Carl Fredrik Wisløff

  Prayer, May, Praying

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

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Work, Ought

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Reading, Law

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Essentials, Christianity

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• God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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• Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Able, Hours

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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• Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Thinking, Suffering

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Prayer, Hearing

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