Quotes about prayer
prayer giving perfect
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer hands perfect
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
prayer children evil
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
prayer heart passion
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
prayer men purpose
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
prayer saint bars
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
prayer heaven half
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
prayer voice waiting
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
prayer father heart
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
prayer men praying
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
prayer heart goal
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
prayer favors privilege
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
prayer hard-work sunshine
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.
prayer doe needs
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
prayer people waiting
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
prayer men organization
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.
prayer names holiness
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
prayer past eight
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? Edna St. Vincent Millay
prayer 4th-of-july needs
In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance? Benjamin Franklin
prayer men soul
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
prayer people and-love
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. Arthur Middleton
prayer evil church
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.
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 father tiny
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time. Ben Gibbard
prayer hammers steel
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Carl Sandburg
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 worship worship-god
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
prayer real may
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
prayer silly granted
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
prayer mind half
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
prayer order house
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
prayer waiting mountain
For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
prayer doe change-god
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.