Praying To God Quotes - Page 5

• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

  Austin Phelps

  Prayer, Men, Long

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

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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

  Prayer, Giving, Ministry

  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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• Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Leader, Power Of God

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Expression, Way

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• You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Needs, Helping

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.323, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  A. J. McLean

  Girl, Thinking, One Day

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• We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Doors, Sanctuary

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• The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Memorial Day, War, One Day

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• On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.

  Ernst Mayr

  Sunday, Hands, Two

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• Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heart, Hands, Roots

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.61, Lulu.com

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• Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

  Elizabeth I

  People, Care, Praying

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• Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Prayer, Mean, Keys

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria

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• Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Prayer, Trying, Comfort

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• True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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• Pray to God, but row towards shore.

  Lee Ezell

  Religion, Praying, Shore

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, May, Treasure

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Life of Christ”, p.466

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Expression, Giving, Doubt

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• I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Life, Art, Prayer

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• I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Love, Jealous, Fire

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• Pray to God. She will help you.

  Alva Belmont

  Helping, Praying

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• Pray to God and say the lines.

  Bette Davis

  Theatre, Lines, Praying

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• The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Purpose, Firsts

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.16, Revell

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