Quotes by Authors - Page 112

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers
Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.
A.B. Simpson
We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.
Anonymous Chinese woman
If we are to pray aright perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer not the poverty of our heart.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
A.B. Simpson
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
William Jenkyn
Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Thomas B. Brooks
Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.
Anonymous
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
E.M.Bounds
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter not with vain repetitions but with urgent repetitions. We repeat not to count the times but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them or die.
E.M.Bounds
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.
E.M.Bounds
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.
E.M.Bounds
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires listless efforts lazy attitudes all must be strenuous urgent ardent. Flamed desires impassioned unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
E.M.Bounds
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
J.C. Ryle
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills with unshakable confidence.
Herbert Lockyer
Don't be timid when you pray rather batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
Anonymous
When we succeed in truly thanking God we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God now and for-evermore. And every time we do so we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.
O. Hallesby
The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.
Jayne Crook
Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him "I thank Thee Savior because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
O. Hallesby
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
Anonymous
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
Søren Kierkegaard
It is not only blessed to give thanks it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him then it becomes easier for us and we get more courage to pray for more.
O. Hallesby
God receives little thanks even for his greatest gifts.
Anonymous
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
John Bunyan
God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.
Anonymous
Fear of trouble present and future often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.
Anonymous
See to it night and day that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
O. Hallesby
We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day "God give them each Thy blessing. They need it because they live with me and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them although I do love them."
O. Hallesby
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers
When we make self the end of prayer it is not worship but self-seeking.
Thomas Manton
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
A.W. Tozer
God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.
John Trapp
Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C.S. Lewis
When praying for healing ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters the healing of the heart enabling us to trust God simply face God honestly and live triumphantly.
Arlo F. Newell
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.
Hugh Prather
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Ann Wigmore
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
O. Hallesby
Prayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth."
Oswald Chambers
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.
E.M.Bounds
We should not be afraid when praying to God to give expression to a definite desire even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
O. Hallesby
Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission not only to stand in the presence of God but also to pray for everything you need.
O. Hallesby
We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
Oswald Chambers
My praying friend continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
O. Hallesby
It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
O. Hallesby
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case we are asking God to do it our way.
Bill W.
Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Short prayers pierceth Heaven.
Anonymous
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God "May I be in Thy presence Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee but I do love to be in Thy presence."
O. Hallesby
A little lifting of the heart suffices a little remembrance of God one act of inward worship are prayers which however short are nevertheless acceptable to God.
Brother Lawrence
Many words do not a good prayer make what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God and the faith to back it up.
Anonymous
Prayer is a fine delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
O. Hallesby
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Richard Sibbes
When prayer is a struggle do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.
O. Hallesby
Our groanings which cannot be uttered rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
O. Hallesby
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly too without a single stutter. Later he explained "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
Bennett Cerf