Our Prayers Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

  Robert Breault

  Prayer, Answers, Sometimes

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• We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Men, Atmosphere

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• Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Degrees, Scripture

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.40, Penguin

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• I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, War, Unity

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way...Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered...the strength [not length] of your prayer...wins...God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Lying, Real

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

  Learned Hand

  Prayer, Wind, Heaven

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken

  Masahisa Goi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Taken

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• The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Prayer, Enquiry, May

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• But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Prayer, Israel, Doors

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• We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Empty, Purgatory

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• Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Humility, Doubt

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.24, Franciscan Media

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• God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Character, Giving

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• I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

  Lou Holtz

  Prayer, Worry, Doe

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

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Yield, Effort

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• The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Prayer, Echoes, Answers

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• Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Reading, Use

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• The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Problem, Should

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

  Marion G. Romney

  Prayer, Care, Efficacy

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• Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Motivation

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Our Love, Determined

  Arthur W. Pink (2000). “The Ability of God: Prayers of the Apostle Paul”, p.282, Moody Publishers

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• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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