Quotes about pray
prayer temptation singing
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer. Henry Ward Beecher
prayer pride men
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
prayer journey ideas
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey. Henry James
prayer night might
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. John Knowles
prayer lying past
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
prayer swings ideas
My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences. Graydon Carter
prayer angel heaven
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. John Dryden
prayer heart men
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. John Masefield
prayer men feet
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet. John Locke
prayer talking familiar
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. John Knox
prayer adversity talking
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.
prayer night feet
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
prayer attitude kindness
Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste. Jody Watley
prayer blessing men
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down. Joanna Baillie
prayer excuse good-work
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
prayer hypocrisy time-flies
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
prayer two people
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
prayer thinking order
Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
prayer flesh gods-will
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
prayer heart giving
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart. Charles Spurgeon
prayer water promise
Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.
prayer heart trading
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.
prayer long peril
All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.
prayer heart goal
We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of it may have kindled devotional feeling in our minds, the hearing of it may have comforted and strengthened the hearts of those with whom we have prayed, but if the prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose.
prayer men shining
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
praying machinery praying-to-god
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
prayer moving omnipotence
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
prayer important answers
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
prayer knees study
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
prayer giving weakness
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.
prayer birth-place evil
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
prayer believe practice
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.
prayer believe heart
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.