Quotes by Authors - Page 111

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.
William Gurnall
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
T. L. Cuyler
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.
Anonymous
If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.
Thomas Manton
There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.
Anonymous
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Robert Louis Stevenson
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
Anonymous
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
Anonymous
My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.
George MacDonald
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
Oswald Chambers
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell and then running away as fast as he can go.
E.M.Bounds
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
Oswald Chambers
No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.
John Blanchard
There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
Ruth Stafford Peale
Poverty chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
Katheryn Hulme
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers
Visualize "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.
Charles L. Allen
Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.
Anonymous
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
Michel de Montaigne
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
William Law
When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
Anonymous
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
J.C. Ryle
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
O. Hallesby
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
Alan Redpath
Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him it is His responsi-bility.
O. Hallesby
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
O. Hallesby
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
Thomas à Kempis
God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.
Anonymous
We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
Robert Leighton
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C.S. Lewis
Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Women don't have halos built in.
Lorraine Hine
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?
Anonymous
It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
O. Hallesby
Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore whether you pray for big things or for little things say to God "If it will glorify Thy name then grant my prayer and help me."
O. Hallesby
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
Anonymous
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.
E.M.Bounds
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
Anonymous
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.
Clarence Bauman
When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
O. Hallesby
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Oswald Chambers
Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know as yet very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.
O. Hallesby
Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
Oswald Chambers
God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.
Winifred Holtby