Quotes by Authors - Page 80

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
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
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
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