Quotes by Authors - Page 114

When at night you cannot sleep talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
Anonymous
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
Oswald Chambers
Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so either alone or with others while at work while at rest or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
O. Hallesby
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Victor Hugo
The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
E.M.Bounds
When the knees are not often bent the feet soon slide.
Anonymous
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
Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly audibly or silently as circumstances throughout the day permit.
O. Hallesby
O God if in the day of battle I forget Thee do not Thou forget me.
Anonymous
In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
Anonymous
I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular daily unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
J. Sidlow Baxter
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller
Pray till you pray.
D. M. Mclntyre
If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
When you cannot pray as you would pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn
To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
O. Hallesby
Prayer can assume very different forms from quiet blessed contemplation of God in which eye meets eye in restful meditation to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder joy gratitude or adoration.
O. Hallesby
Pray if thou canst with hope but ever pray though hope be weak or sick with long delay pray in the darkness if there be no light and if for any wish thou dare not pray then pray to God to cast that wish away.
Anonymous
We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
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
When we go to our meeting with God we should go like a patient to his doctor first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
O. Hallesby
Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Jane Austen
The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.
Colleen Townsend Evans
Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.
J. H. Evans
Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?
Hubert Van Zeller
You need not cry very loud he is nearer to us than we think.
Brother Lawrence
If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano operate a computer or fly an airplane it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.
Paul Rees
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
The only way to pray is to pray and the way to pray well is to pray much.
Anonymous
Praying is learned by praying.
L. A. T. van Dooren
The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.
John Laidlaw
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition.
Oswald Chambers
Every time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers
One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician I have seen men after all other therapy had failed lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
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
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
William Law
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
Charles L. Allen
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies prayerless work and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil mocks at our wisdom but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.
George David Stewart
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
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
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
In the war upon the powers of darkness prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon both in aggressive war upon them and their works in the deliverance of men from their power and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
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
By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.
O. Hallesby
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