Prayer Quotes - Page 5

And since He bids me seek His face Believe His word and trust His grace I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee sweet hour of prayer.

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

Robert Leighton

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Oswald Chambers

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Frank C. Laubach

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

Bishop John de Stratford

God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.

Winifred Holtby

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Oswald Chambers

For we know not what we should pray for.

Bible

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know as yet very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Oswald Chambers

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aide

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

Seneca

When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

George Meredith

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.

Clarence Bauman

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.

Anonymous

Show me your ways O Lord teach me your paths guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long.

Bible

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.

Anonymous

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Thomas B. Brooks

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein and mercy will come down.

Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.

J. Hudson Taylor

In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

William Shakespeare

Lord take my lips and speak through them take my mind and think through it take my heart and set it on fire.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

If we are to pray aright perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer not the poverty of our heart.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.

Anonymous Chinese woman

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Søren Kierkegaard

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Anonymous

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him "I thank Thee Savior because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

Bible

When we succeed in truly thanking God we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God now and for-evermore. And every time we do so we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

Don't be timid when you pray rather batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

Anonymous

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it be his life ever so wicked for prayer is the way to amend it and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Teresa of Avila.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills with unshakable confidence.

Herbert Lockyer

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

Thomas B. Brooks

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

J.C. Ryle

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

William S. Plumer

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires listless efforts lazy attitudes all must be strenuous urgent ardent. Flamed desires impassioned unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

To say prayers in a decent delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened till the mountains of obstacles are removed till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work but it is God's work and man's best labor.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter not with vain repetitions but with urgent repetitions. We repeat not to count the times but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them or die.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Bible

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

Teresa of Avila.

Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!

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