Prayer Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

  Alexander Whyte

  Practice, Hands, Sin

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• When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

  Francis of Assisi

  Praying, Praying To God, Seeking

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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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• To pray well is the better half of study.

  Martin Luther

  Half, Study, Praying

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  Oscar Wilde

  Correspondence, Ifs, Cease

  Quoted in Laurence Housman, Echo de Paris (1923)

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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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• 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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• Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.

  John Mott

  Christian, Missionary, Purpose

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

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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

  Thomas Brooks

  Answers, Cold, Warm

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Feelings, Depth

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• Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Blessing, Water, Effort

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.189, Zondervan

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• Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Sin

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• If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

  John Mott

  Christian, Two, Religion

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

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• Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

  John G. Lake

  Moving, Soul, Littles

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.32, Whitaker House

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• It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Humble, Suffering, Triumph

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• Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Tests, Acid, Devotion

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• A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Doe, Holy, Closets

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, CCEL

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• No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Spiritual, World, Awakening

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• All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

  Paul Washer

  Scripture, Causes, Common

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2012

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• Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Night, Voice

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Angel, Men, Thinking

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 457. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Religion, Church

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• If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Might

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