Prayer Quotes - Page 37

• A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

  Charles Brent

  Character, Mean, Men

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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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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• Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

  Charles Brent

  Pet, Prejudice, Needs

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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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• I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

  Madame de Stael

  Desire, Christianity, Lord

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• Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, People, Thank God

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• Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Father, Perspective

  David Jeremiah (2016). “Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.192, NavPress

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• Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Christian, Needs, Each Day

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• Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2017

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• For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Consciousness, Surrender

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.342, Macmillan

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• Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

  Walter Hilton

  Heart, Desire, Rising

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• At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, War, Approval Rating

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• No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Giving, Judging

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• What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

  Martin Luther

  Thinking, Firsts, Praying

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• Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree) (1988). “The Greatest Challenge: The Golden Future : a Manifesto”

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• Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

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• Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima; something HAS to be done just in deep thankfulness. But remember: with no motive, not as a means but as an end unto itself. Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake, and prayer for prayer's sake.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Mean

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• if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Believe, Church, Devil

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• We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

  Pope John Paul II

  Lakes, Mountain, Praying

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “The Way of Prayer”, Crossroad Classic

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