Prayer Quotes - Page 35

• I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Buddhist, Makeup, Pancakes

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• Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

  Thomas Adams

  Enemy, Ears, Wealth

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.351

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• As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

  Hudson Taylor

  Spiritual, Blessing, Waiting

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• Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.

  Marcus Borg

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

  Ambrose

  Angel, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Laughter, Lord

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Laughter, Dancing

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• Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Wings, Two

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• Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Knowing, Faithful Servants

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Children, Wife

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• Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

  John Owen

  Christ On The Cross, Temptation, Devil

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• All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Giving, Needs

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.92, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Encouragement, Children, Attitude

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• Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

  Oswald Chambers

  Attitude, Horizon, Praying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.19, Discovery House

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• Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.

  Diogenes

  Religious, Thinking, Make You Think

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• When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Attitude, Evil

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.420, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Suffering, Warfare

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.421, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Book, Silence

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• The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

  Anthony of Padua

  Spiritual, Perfect, Facts

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• In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

  Walter Prescott Webb

  Men, Water, Effort

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• And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

  John E. Hines

  Humility, Forgiving, Matter

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• Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Biblical, Sublime

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• The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Heart, Mean

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• The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.

  Richard J. Foster

  Selfish, Tangled, Sides

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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