Quotes about pray
prayer revival very-true
Every true revival . . . has had its earthly origin in prayer. R. A. Torrey
prayer men understanding
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. R. A. Torrey
prayer men hands
Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down. R. A. Torrey
prayer listening-ear meditation
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. R. A. Torrey
prayer omnipotent can-do
All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent. R. A. Torrey
prayer believe men
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. R. A. Torrey
prayer fighting long
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory. R. A. Torrey
prayer use force
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will. R. C. Sproul
prayer why-not want
In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired? R. C. Sproul
prayer crazy epidemics
Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone. R. C. Sproul
prayer adoration persons
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration. R. C. Sproul
prayer important doe
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. R. C. Sproul
prayer ifs cease
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Oscar Wilde
prayer order soul
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede. Oswald Chambers
prayer men doors
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret. Oswald Chambers
prayer watches motive
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. Oswald Chambers
prayer thinking way
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate. Oswald Chambers
prayer understanding succeed
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. Oswald Chambers
prayer praying
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. Oswald Chambers
prayer exercise poverty
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. Oswald Chambers
prayer personality essentials
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. Oswald Chambers
prayer soul body
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body. Oswald Chambers
prayer father taught
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom. Oswald Chambers
prayer wind heaven
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven. Learned Hand
prayer blessing wish
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it. Leigh Hunt
prayer hands talking
We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get... Lauren Oliver
prayer fall tired
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up. Lauren Oliver
prayer justice protection
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Lajos Kossuth
prayer real reading
The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best. Ken Blanchard
prayer school independent
And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person. Kinky Friedman
prayer school prayer-in-school
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school. Kinky Friedman
prayer used greater-good
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good. Oprah Winfrey
prayer praying goodness
I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with. Oprah Winfrey