Prayer Quotes - Page 4

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Poverty chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

William S. Plumer

There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.

Ruth Stafford Peale

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.

God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.

Adoniram Judson

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred

When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

Oswald Chambers

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell and then running away as fast as he can go.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

George Santayana

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.

Aesop

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Archbishop Francis J. Spellman

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin

God help those who do not help themselves.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.

Sir William Gurney Benham

Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.

Russian proverb

Call on God but row away from the rocks.

To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.

Aeschylus

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

Anonymous

Spread out your petition before God and then say "Thy will not mine be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Dwight L. Moody

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine

Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion and thankful in prayer.

The Desert Fathers

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

Thomas à Kempis

Casting all your care upon Him for he careth for you.

Bible

Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you and works in you. Strive in prayer let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Appollonius of Tyana

Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him it is His responsi-bility.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

J.C. Ryle

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.

Anonymous

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied man.

Henry Ward Beecher

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.

Bible

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.

Francois de Fenelon

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

Anonymous

Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore whether you pray for big things or for little things say to God "If it will glorify Thy name then grant my prayer and help me."

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?

Anonymous

Women don't have halos built in.

A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Create in me a clean heart O God.

Bible

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

Theodore Roosevelt

What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!

Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.

Frances Ridley Havergal

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