Prayer Quotes - Page 2

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

Samuel Chadwick

Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

Alexander Whyte

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Philip James Bailey

Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

Phillips Brooks

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

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

Richard J. Needham

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

God alone fully understands what each one of us needs we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the voice of faith.

William Van Home

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Søren Kierkegaard

Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.

Without faith it is impossible to please God for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.

Bible

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Teresa of Avila.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings our home would through God's answer to prayer become a little paradise.

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children just as far as God's ability goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

Oswald Chambers

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Oswald Chambers

The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will in God's time descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.

Anna Delaney Peale

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

William Shakespeare

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things the simplest and the sublim-est the weakest and the most powerful its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

Prayer like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.

If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Oswald Chambers

If we pray for anything according to the will of God we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God and have learned to leave this in His hands and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

It is God's will not only to hear our prayer but to give us the best and the richest answer which He the almighty and omniscient God can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire it hath bridled the rage of lions hushed anarchy to rest extinguished wars appeased the elements expelled demons burst the chains of death expanded the gates of heaven assuaged diseases repelled frauds rescued cities from destruction stayed the sun in its course and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

Saint John Chrysostom

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Teresa of Avila.

True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

William Culbertson

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy greater intellectual vigor moral stamina and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb a fresh courage a new insight a holy boldness that you'll never never get any other way.

Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.

When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.

Anonymous

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

Amazing things start happening when we start praying!

Anonymous

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

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