Prayer Quotes - Page 20

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Mean, Men, Praying

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• Prayer is the life of the soul.

  Madame de Stael

  Soul

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• It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Mistake, Praying, Puzzled

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• God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

  Francis Quarles

  Pleasure, Ends, Our Prayers

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.140

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• It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

  Washington Irving

  Strokes, Draws, Handle

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• Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

  Mark Hopkins

  Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy, Two

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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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• A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Self

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.721

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• Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Thinking, Praying

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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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• 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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• Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

  George Herbert

  Night, Two, Bed

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Attitude

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Praying, Busy

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear.

  Curtis Hutson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Praying

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• Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Tied, Bounds

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.158

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• The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.

  Jim Cymbala

  Reading, Dwelling, House

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• Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

  Chuck Smith

  Doe, Purpose, Action

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Faith

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Spiritual, Victory, Purpose

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• The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Giving, Littles, Evidence

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• Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Littles, Praying, Bounds

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.68, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

  Francis Spellman

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

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