Quotes by Authors - Page 82

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.
Anonymous
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
Malcolm Boyd
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Do not pray by heart but with the heart.
Anonymous
God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.
Anonymous
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
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
Anonymous
Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
Herbert Lockyer
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
When you enter your secret chamber take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.
O. Hallesby
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
E.M.Bounds
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.
Oswald Chambers
He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.
Anonymous
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
O. Hallesby
Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.
O. Hallesby
Listen my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
O. Hallesby
My helpless friend your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
O. Hallesby
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
O. Hallesby
If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Sir James M. Barrie
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.
Austin O'Malley
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions demanded by work become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.
Billy Bray
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
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Oswald Chambers
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Oswald Chambers
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
Oswald Chambers
When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work just as we set aside time for other necessary things such as eating and dressing.
O. Hallesby
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
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
J.C. Ryle
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Richard Cecil
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