Prayer Quotes - Page 3

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.

Anonymous

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.

Oswald Chambers

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Bill W.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

Oswald Chambers

As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

God is a rich and bountiful Father and He does not forget His children nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.

Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children's welfare so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.

Anonymous

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

Whatever things ye desire when ye pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them.

Bible

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

William Gurnall

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.

Adoniram Judson

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.

Anonymous

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress May the name of the God of Jacob protect you May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

Bible

Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.

The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips.

Bible

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

William S. Plumer

I know not by what methods rare But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.

Eliza M. Hickok

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Dwight L. Moody

When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Oswald Chambers

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

Oswald Chambers

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Oswald Chambers

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

Oswald Chambers

Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.

George Meredith

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

KB. Meyer

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

George MacDonald

The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.

Anonymous

God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.

Anonymous

God delays but doesn't forget.

Spanish Proverb

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Thomas Jefferson

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

Anonymous

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Sa'di

Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.

Anonymous

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Visualize "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.

Charles L. Allen

There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!

General Peter Muhlenberg

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

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