Prayer Quotes - Page 10

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us but that we will hear Him.

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

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

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

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

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

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

Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.

Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!

What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer!

Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.

Francois de Fenelon

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

Sir William Gurney Benham

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.

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

No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

J.C. Ryle

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Charles L. Allen

We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.

No matter what may be the test God will take care of you Lean weary one upon His breast God will take care of you.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard J. Needham

Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

Anonymous

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard M. Milnes

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

Charles G. Finney

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

Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

John Aikman Wallace

Prayer changes things.

Anonymous

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

There is no hope but in prayer.

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.

By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.

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.

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

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

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

Men of God are always men of prayer.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Michel de Montaigne

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.

Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Voltaire

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.

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

Phillips Brooks

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!

James Drummond Burns

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Anonymous

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Mary Baker Eddy

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

George Edward Herbert

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