Prayer And Fasting Quotes

• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Fasting, Fellowship With God

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• Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Prayer, Evil

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• Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Hands, Christian Inspirational

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.383

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him into the wilderness to fast for 40 days and to contend with the territorial strongman over the earth, satan himself. For 40 days, Jesus warred through prayer and fasting to reverse the curse of Adam and Eve and to overcome the devil and release atomic power into the earth. The results recorded in Luke show that history changed forever through the strength and victory the Lord gained by His obedience. Divine power was now His!

  Lou Engle

  Jesus, Prayer, Forever

  Lou Engle (1998). “Digging the Wells of Revival”, p.155, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, America, Mind

  John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

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• Man shall not live by bread alone.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Jesus, Food

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• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  Umar

  Prayer, Fasting, Looks

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• Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

  David Livingstone

  Running, Prayer, Views

  David Livingstone (2002). “The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingstone: Comprising All His Extensive Travels and Discoveries : as Detailed in His Diary, Reports, and Letters, Including His Famous Last Journals : with Maps and Numerous Illustrations”, p.516, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

  Cyprian

  Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving

  Saint Cyprian, Roy J. Deferrari (2007). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.232, CUA Press

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• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Money, 4th Of July

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1758) preface

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Fasting

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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• Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Prayer, Humanity

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

  Susan Hale

  Prayer, Mind, Fasting

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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