Prayer Quotes - Page 19

• Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Relationship, Marriage, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 27, 2015

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• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  William Mountford

  Agony, Feelings, Littles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 466), 1895.

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, God, Religious

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Men, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Giving, Ministry, Praying

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne: Containing His Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c”, p.68

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• Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Soul, Church

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “The autobiography”, Рипол Классик

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• Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Art, Spirit, Giver

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• Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

  Dorothy Bernard

  Inspiring, Courage, Fear

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• Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

  Oswald Chambers

  Attitude, Son, Common Sense

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Ideas, Saint, Imagine

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

  Francois Fenelon

  Praying, Trouble, Perplexity

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• In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Praying, These Days

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• There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

  Ole Hallesby

  May, Praying, Wonderful

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• Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

  S. D Gordon

  Jesus, Names, Ears

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Believe, Farce, Littles

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• We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Understanding, Succeed, Failing

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.311, Discovery House

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• We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

  Brother Yun

  Love, God, Christian

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.229, Monarch Books

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• I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

  Josephine Baker

  Believe, Heaven, Way

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• Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Praying, Worship

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• Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wish, Wish You, Asks

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Letter XCV, line 1, c. 65 AD.

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• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

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• He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179

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• The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.

  William Cowper

  Praying

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Stronger, Tasks

  "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

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