Answers To Prayer Quotes

• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Sweet, Prayer, Practice

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.20, Baker Books

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

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• Pray, and let God worry.

  Martin Luther

  Trust, Encouraging, Hope

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1975). “Letters”

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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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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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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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• Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Prayer, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.135, Discovery House

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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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• 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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• Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Sweat, Soul

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• When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Men, Use

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.279, Paulist Press

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• We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Understanding, Succeed

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.311, Discovery House

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• The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Disappointment, Grace

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• If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

  Fredrik Franson

  Prayer, People, Sick

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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 Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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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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• This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Lord, Our Lord

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Heart, Simplicity

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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Attitude, Son

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• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL

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• Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus Christ, God Answers Prayers, Orthodox

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.16

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