Quotes about prayer
prayer eye judgment
You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Ayn Rand
prayer flames doe
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames. C. S. Lewis
prayer memorable writing
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. Carol Ann Duffy
prayer cities giving
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship. Charles R. Swindoll
prayer war hands
There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today. Delroy Lindo
prayer effort understanding
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily. Susan B. Anthony
prayer men essence
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it. Brennan Manning
prayer firsts acts-of-love
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
prayer love-you past
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
prayer causality dignity
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. Blaise Pascal
prayer each-day rooms
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
prayer exercise equipment
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer. Bill Hybels
prayer moving focus
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
prayer chance habit
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. Charles Spurgeon
prayer men praying
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
prayer perfect wavering
The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!
prayer tears repentance
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
prayer cities people
I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.
prayer heart hands
Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.
prayer men deep-water
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
prayer church machinery
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
prayer groaning revival-prayer
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
prayer gods-presence
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence Brother Lawrence
prayer heart remembrance
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
prayer heart remembrance
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
prayer thinking needs
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
prayer heart differences
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not. Elif Safak
prayer needs answers
- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God. Eliezer Yudkowsky
prayer lying drinking
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love. Charles Bukowski
prayer heart important
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer earth faces
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth, Efraim Zuroff
prayer meditation spirit
Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you. Deepak Chopra
prayer night keys
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night. Thomas Fuller