I Pray Quotes

• 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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• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Powerful God

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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

  Adam Clarke

  Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational

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

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• The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Harder

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Praying, Because I Can

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• Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

  Neil Peart

  Sleep, Soul, Taxes Funny

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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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• 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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• I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Praying, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 25, 2015

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

  William Nicholson

  Sleep, Needs, Flow

  "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

  George Muller

  Christian, Prayer, Lying

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• I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Doe, Needs

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• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Wind, Names

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• I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.

  Manmohan Singh

  Commitment, Thinking, Together

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• I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Sports, Nfl, Victory

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• I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Memories, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.117, New York Review of Books

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• When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

  Robert Bridges

  Love, Firsts, Sentimental

  Robert Bridges (1964). “The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges”, p.208, Library of Alexandria

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• When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

  James L. Kraft

  Mind, Answers, Assuming

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• I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Revenge, War

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• I pray because I can't help myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Praying, Because I Can

  "Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
  Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
  Thy love is such I can no way repay,
  The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Famous Love, Love Is, Rivers

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal life, and my public life as well. I make personal decisions every day. Some are easy, and some aren't so easy. I have worries just like you do. And I pray. I pray for guidance. I pray for patience. I firmly believe in the power of intercessory prayer; and I know that I could not do my job without it.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Prayer, Believe

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• I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.

  W. Rolfe Kerr

  Children, Father, Differences

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