Quotes about prayer
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. Thomas Adams
prayer enemy ears
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven . Thomas Brooks
prayer breathing roots
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
prayer men fire
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
prayer names soul
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
prayer answers cold
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
prayer men dumb
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
prayer heaven secret
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
prayer soul solitude
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].
prayer heaven house
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
prayer thinking delay
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. Tryon Edwards
prayer father race
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
prayer past simple
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. Truman Capote
prayer broken promise
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises. Rick Yancey
prayer sleep broken
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
prayer delay want
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him. Rick Warren
prayer use things-to-do
Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.
prayer use
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
prayer worry anxiety
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
prayer people our-love
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
prayer giving thanks
Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
prayer character promise
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
prayer form music-is
Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu
prayer pride secret
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all. Madame de Stael
prayer desire christianity
I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.
prayer self meditation
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
prayer soul
Prayer is the life of the soul.
prayer important waste
Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.
prayer way electricity
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going. Kathryn Stockett
prayer thinking habit
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer. William Faulkner
prayer destiny men
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. Wilbur Smith
prayer race rocks
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways. Warren Jeffs