Quotes about prayer
prayer people good-people
The prayers of all good people are good. Willa Cather
prayer people said
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
prayer broken soul
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
prayer practice doubt
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. Warren E. Burger
prayer men views
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.
prayer house problem
There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals. Vladimir Zhirinovsky
prayer believe sky
We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules. Wayne Dyer
prayer law desire
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers. Walter Cronkite
prayer adventure hands
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
prayer mean praying
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin. William Gurnall
prayer long affection
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
prayer people mind
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
prayer promise argument
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
prayer
The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
prayer plot three
Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.
prayer promise victory
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
prayer desire praying
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
prayer waiting soul
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
prayer done
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. William Barclay
prayer trying done
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
prayer offering order
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
prayer men faces
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
prayer cutting doubt
If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer? William Arthur Ward
prayer answers venture
The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all. Wilfred Grenfell
prayer paint made
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. Wassily Kandinsky
prayer draws strokes
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. Washington Irving
prayer exercise doe
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. Walter Martin
prayer persistence mind
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. Voltaire
prayer philosophy made
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
prayer grateful answers-to-prayer
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. William Feather
prayer normal energy
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. William Ralph Inge
prayer mean opportunity
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.