Answers To Prayer Quotes

• The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

  Aldous Huxley

  Prayer, Done, Lord

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• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, One Line

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

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• By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Answers, Becoming

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• So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessed, Thinking, Space

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• Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

  John G. Lake

  Prayer, Moving, Soul

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.32, Whitaker House

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• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Moments, Form

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• Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you 'my beloved daughter,' 'my beloved son,' 'my beloved child.' To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Daughter, Prayer, Children

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

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Silence, Secret

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

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying

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

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• You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Saint, Praying, Lord

  "Speech of Vice President Jejomar C. Binay during the 36th National Prayer Breakfast Anniversary". Jojo Binay @JojoCBinay, www.facebook.com. November 24, 2011.

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• The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Prayer, Heart, Exercise

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1806). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.40

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• The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

  Richard Alleine

  Prayer, Heart, Answers

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.350

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, God, Religious

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

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• Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

  William Feather

  Prayer, Grateful, Prayers Not Being Answered

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• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Prayer, Golf

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.143, B&H Publishing Group

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• We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Inspiration

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• Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

  John Hardon

  Prayer, Believe, Doe

  John A. Hardon (1971). “Christianity in the Twentieth Century”

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• 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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• Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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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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• A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.113, Paulist Press

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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  George Meredith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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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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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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