GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 19

GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 19

 

 

"A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life."  E. M. Bounds

"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer."  E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is the acid test of devotion."  Samuel Chadwick

 "As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."  Martin Luther

 "Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest."  Thomas Hooker, Puritan

"The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer."  Leonard Ravenhill

 "We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ".  E. M. Bounds

 "Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit."  S.D. Gordon

 "The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer." The Kneeling Christian

 "...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length."  C. H. Spurgeon

 "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ." C. H. Spurgeon

 "The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong."  E. M. Bounds 

 "If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural."  Andrew Murray

 "We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end."  Oswald Chambers

 "Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness."  William Carey

 

 The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer." A. T. Pierson

 

 "The essence of prayer does not consist in asking God for something but in opening our hearts to God, in speaking with Him, and living with Him in perpetual communion. Prayer is continual abandonment to God. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want; it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life, Prayer is not asking, but union with God. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of our lives. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself, the Source of all life. The true spirit of prayer does not consist in asking for blessings, but in receiving Him who is the giver of all blessings, and in living a life of fellowship with Him." Sadhu Sundar Singh

 

"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence.  It is vain to say, 'I have too much work to do to find time.'  You must find time or forfeit blessing.  God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him."  A. T. Pierson.

 

"Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices…I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer."  Mary Warburton Booth 

 

"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working."  James Hudson Taylor

 

"It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?"  J. H. Jowett

 

 He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. John Bunyan

 

 "Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!"  Andrew Murray

 

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we ask or think.'"  Andrew Murray

 

 "If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him." R.A. Torrey

 

 "Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different."  Henry Drummond

 

 "Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do their best to fight against sin, and to serve God, but they have no strength. They have never really grasped the secret: The Lord Jesus will every day from heaven continue His work in me. But on one condition—the soul must give Him time each day to impart His love and his grace. Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power."  Andrew Murray.

 

 "Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father."  Andrew Murray

"There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer."  A.T. Pierson

 

 "Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no power on earth that can keep intercession out."  Richard Halverson

 

"Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."
Richard C. Trench