Prayer Quotes - Page 8

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill they come only when they hurt.

B. Graham Dienert

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

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.

Anonymous

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Walter A. Mueller

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

But thou when thou prayest enter into thy room and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Father who is in secret and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Bible

When you enter your secret chamber take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.

Oswald Chambers

Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

William Wilberforce

Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

Herbert Lockyer

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Anonymous

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely lovingly confidently and simply as your heart dictates.

Jane Frances de Chantal

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer he has already tried every other means of escape.

Austin O'Malley

When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Ethel Barrymore

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

William Shakespeare

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Marian Anderson

Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Sir James M. Barrie

If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.

Fred Beck

When I am weak then am I strong.

Bible

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

My helpless friend your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

Listen my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.

The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.

Bible

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

Bible

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

Bible

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Bible

When at night you cannot sleep talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

Anonymous

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

Francois de Fenelon

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

J.C. Ryle

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire spiritual calamity.

When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work just as we set aside time for other necessary things such as eating and dressing.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

And in the morning rising up a great while before day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed.

Bible

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Oswald Chambers

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Oswald Chambers

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.

Bible

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.

Bible

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Oswald Chambers

I feel it is far better to begin with God to see His face first to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions demanded by work become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.

Lord you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you do not you forget me.

We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

Evening and morning and at noon will I pray.

Bible

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly audibly or silently as circumstances throughout the day permit.

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