Prayer Quotes - Page 13

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

  J. Edwin Orr

  God, Religious, People

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• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Doe, Praying

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Silly, Mean, Government

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.89, Moody Publishers

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• Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Knees, Study, Remember

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.942, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

  Hannah More

  Soul, Feelings, Speech

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• If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

  Ja'far al-Sadiq

  Men, People, Religion

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Names, Asking, May

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• God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

  Richard Cecil

  Christian, Patience, Often Is

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• The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Kingdoms, Majesty

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

  Thomas Brooks

  Breathing, Firsts, Spirit

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.126

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• Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Battle, Littles

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan”, p.59, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

  Aesop

  Life, Fables, Praying

  Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

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• True prayer is a lonely business.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Lonely

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• Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Perfect, Wish, Earth

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

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• The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

  Oswald Chambers

  Views, Perfect, Understanding

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• Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Religious

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

  Dan Brown

  Accepting, Angels And Demons, Grants

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.

  Carl Fredrik Wisløff

  May, Praying, Moments

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• One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

  Catherine Marshall

  Believe, Praying, Efficacy

  Catherine Marshall (1961). “Beyond Our Selves, A Pilgrimage in Faith”

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• Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Temptation, Virtue

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• Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Air, Evil, Phases

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.

  Charles Brent

  Order, Voice, Listening

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• Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Thinking, Use, Littles

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