Quotes by Authors - Page 83

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
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
There is no hope but in prayer.
Andrew Bonar
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
Prayer changes things.
Anonymous
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
Georges Lefevre
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Anonymous
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
Peter Bowman
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
Mark Twain
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
John Gardner
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Michel de Montaigne
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Walter Colton