Short Prayer Quotes

• We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Defense, Use

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• All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Heard

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• We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Praying, God Prayer

  "Prayer: A Holy Occupation".

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Prayer, Wish

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

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• A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Prayer, Men

  Dwight L Moody (1898). “Men of the Bible: Abraham, Moses, Naaman, Nehemiah, Herod, John the Baptist, The Man Born Blind, Joseph of Arimathea, The Penitent Thief”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

  Philip Neri

  Prayer, Long, Mind

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Short prayer pierceth heaven.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Prayer, Heaven

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• Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Giving, Thanks

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• On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

  Rick Warren

  Football, Prayer, Giving

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• I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued in a few seconds. In the almost 50 years that I have worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Men, Doctors

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• I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."

  Frederic Farrar

  Life, Prayer, Philosophy

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• When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Lying, Hands

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1854). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Unum necessarium. Deus justificatus. Letters to Warner and Jeanes. Golden grove, and hymnes”, p.616

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• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

  Mary Pipher

  Peace, Prayer, Worry

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