Quotes by American Authors - Page 105

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie D. Babcock
God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.
William S. Plumer
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
Jonathan Edwards
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
Mark Twain
God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.
Thomas B. Brooks
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
Walter A. Mueller
All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
E.M.Bounds
If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson
When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.
Austin O'Malley
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
I feel it is far better to begin with God to see His face first to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
E.M.Bounds
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire spiritual calamity.
E.M.Bounds
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
E.M.Bounds
Pray always pray beneath sins heaviest load Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray always pray though weary faint and lone Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
A.B. Simpson
If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith the power of a thorough consecration the ability of self-littleness an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
E.M.Bounds
The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.
Colleen Townsend Evans
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this as well as in all other trades makes perfect.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production distribution and administration and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
Norman Vincent Peale
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
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.
Thomas B. Brooks
Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.
E.M.Bounds
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.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
E.M.Bounds
Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
E.M.Bounds
To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.
Sandra L. Douglas
We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
Charles L. Allen
By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
E.M.Bounds
What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer!
David Brown
Men of God are always men of prayer.
Henry T. Mahan
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
E.M.Bounds
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.
E.M.Bounds
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
E.M.Bounds
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
Charles G. Finney
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
Peter Bowman
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
Mark Twain
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
John Gardner
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
Kin Hubbard
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce