Saying A Prayer Quotes

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Atheist, Two, Four

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Forgiveness, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgive Me

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  Adam Clarke

  Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

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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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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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• To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

  Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Country, Spiritual, Prayer

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• If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Abiding

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.35, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

  Alan Redpath

  Prayer, Kingdoms, Praying

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• Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Doe, Purpose

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• I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Catholic, Rosary, Helping

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• The Family that prays together, stays together.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Together, Rosary

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Personality, Moments

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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