PRAYER QUOTES

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke

God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. ~Author Unknown

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. ~Mother Teresa

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence." ~O. Hallesby

Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer. ~Noelani Day

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." ~Ivan Turgenev

Most people do not pray; they only beg. ~George Bernard Shaw

Prayer draws us near to our own souls. ~Herman Melville, Mardi and A Voyage Thither, 1849

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~Victor Hugo

What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours. ~Helga Bergold Gross

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. ~Margaret Gibb

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ~Socrates

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~Ruth Graham

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. ~Author Unknown

You know I ain't never prayed before
'Cause it always seemed to me
That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord,
I don't take no charity.
~Steve Earle, "Tom Ames' Prayer," 1994

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

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. ~Gerald Vann

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. ~Stephen Crotts

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers. ~William Culbertson

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. ~E.M. Bounds

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith

When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze, and ache prayer. ~Carrie Latet

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ~Philip James Bailey

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrieten Boom

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"The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas." - Frank Laubach

"Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with us." - Andrew Murray

"Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence." - A.W. Tozer

"The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts." - A.W. Tozer

"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results." - R. A. Torrey

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part." - Andrew Murray

"Prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence." - W. S. Bowd

"Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails." - Watchman Nee

"I ought to pray before seeing any one…Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: 'Early will I seek thee'…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." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God." - Samuel Chadwick

"The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and then you shall never fail…" - John Laidlaw

"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer is the secret of power." - Evan Roberts

"Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power." - Hudson Taylor

"Where there is no vision of eternity, there is no prayer for the perishing." - David Smithers

"Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps. If all prayed the wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge." - Evan Roberts

"Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God." - Andrew Murray

"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet." - Samuel Logan Brengle

"Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater prayer than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do." - R. A. Torrey

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. - Georges Bernanos There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. - John Wooden There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. - Herbert Hoover There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. - Warren E. Burger There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights. - Phyllis Schlafly There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. - Ivan Illich There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals. - Vladimir Zhirinovsky To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. - Martin Luther King, Jr. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. - Martin Luther To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mohandas Gandhi To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. - Victor Hugo Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer. - Nick Rahall Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. - William Brewster

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GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 11

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't. --William Temple

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. --Andrew Murray

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. --John G. Lake

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not. --John A. Hardon

Pray, and let God worry. -- Martin Luther

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 task. --Phillips Brooks

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.-- Julian of Norwich

If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.-- Lyell Rader

God's answers are wiser than our prayers. –Unknown

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. --Teresa of Avila

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. --Anselm of Canterbury

We waste most of our time trying to get God to do something He has already done—or praying for God to do something He told us to do. --Jacquelyn K. Heasley

If God will do whatever He wishes, regardless of whether we pray or not, then we do not need to pray at all, and the Lord's instructions on praying for the Kingdom and the Will are superfluous. But the truth is that God waits for a Remnant to rise up and to pray in agreement with His Purpose before He does anything - He will do nothing apart from the Church. Apart from HIM, we CAN do nothing; apart from US, He WILL do nothing –Chip Brogden

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. --Oswald Chambers

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of prayer." --E. M. Bounds

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Prayer begins where human capacity ends. - Marian Anderson

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. - Frank R. Wolf

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. - Boyd Rice

My longing for truth was a single prayer. - Edith Stein

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. - Toby Keith

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. - Johannes Tauler

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. - Jane Elliot

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. - Laurence Sterne

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. - William Wilberforce

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. - Andre Gide

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. - Bob Schaffer

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. - Mary Antin

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. - Mark Hopkins

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. - Mother Maribel

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. - Terry Prachett

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. - Armstrong Williams

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. - Mary Austin

Poetry and prayer are very similar. - Carol Ann Duffy

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. - Austin O'Malley

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. - Frederick William Robertson

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"Only those who see the invisible can attempt the impossible." - Dick Eastman

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments" - Charles H. Spurgeon

"God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it." - John Wesley

"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone." - Robert Foster

"Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue." - Adam Clarke

"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it." - Guy H. King

"The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer." - F.B. Meyer

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." - Oswald Chanbers

"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man." - Francis J. Spellman

"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts." - Richard Alleine

"Do not make prayer a monologue-make it a conversation." - Author unknown

"Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end." - Charles Finney

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak." - Allen Vartlett

"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure." - D. L. Moody

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow." - Benjamin Franklin

"Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God." - Maltbie D. Babcock

"To pray in Jesus' name means to pray in his spirit, in his compassion, in his love, in his outrage, in his concern. In other words, it means to pray a prayer that Jesus himself might pray." - Kenneth L. Wilson

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. -- Martin Luther

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. -- Oswald Chambers

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. -- E. M. Bounds

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. - E. M. Bounds

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. - Margaret Mead

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. - Robert McAfee Brown

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. - William Ralph Inge

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. - Jacques Ellul

Prayer in private results in boldness in public. - Edwin Louis Cole

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

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. - Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. - Martin Luther

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. - Ernest Holmes

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. - E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. - Victor Hugo

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. - Jonathan Edwards

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. - E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. - E. Stanley Jones

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On persevering prayer: "I look at a stone cutter hammering away at a rock a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it splits in two. I know it was not the one blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

"Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted Christ as his Savior. Later, his mother, who had been away, returned home. When Hudson told her the good news, she said, "I already know. Ten days ago, the very date on which you tell me you read that tract, I spent the entire afternoon in prayer for you until the Lord assured me that my wayward son had been brought into the fold." - Our Daily Bread, July 19, 1989.

Spurgeon's "boilerroom. " Five young college students were spending a Sunday in London, so they went to hear the famed C.H. Spurgeon preach. While waiting for the doors to open, the students were greeted by a man who asked, "Gentlemen, let me show you around. Would you like to see the heating plant of this church?" They were not particularly interested, for it was a hot day in July. But they didn't want to offend the stranger, so they consented. The young men were taken down a stairway, a door was quietly opened, and their guide whispered, "This is our heating plant." Surprised, the students saw 700 people bowed in prayer, seeking a blessing on the service that was soon to begin in the auditorium above. Softly closing the door, the gentleman then introduced himself. It was none other than Charles Spurgeon. - Our Daily Bread, April 24.

"Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action." - S.D. Gordon

Prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings." - Chrysostom

"Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid." - E.M. Bounds

Prayer should not be regarded "as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty." - E.M. Bounds

"I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came." - Adoniram Judson

"Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them." - John Calvin

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." - Oswald Chambers

"The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline." - Oswald Chambers

"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held." - E. M. Bounds

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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. - Alexander Herzen

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. - George Eliot

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. - Sam Levenson

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. - Bill Shuster

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things. - Pat Robertson

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. - Thomas Kempis

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four. - Ivan Turgenev

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. - Simon Newcomb

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. - Julia Margaret Cameron

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary. - Olympia Dukakis

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. - Ernest Holmes

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. - George Carey

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. - David Brainerd

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. - Jeremy Taylor

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. - Frederic William Farrar

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Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. --Leonard Ravenhill

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. --Leonard Ravenhill

How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb. –Basilea Schlink

The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer. --John R. Mott

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours. --William Wilberforce

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. --Oswald Chambers

Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you "my beloved daughter," "my beloved son," "my beloved child." To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being. --Henri Nouwen

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. --A.W. Tozer

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. --John Climacus

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. --Francois Fenelon

Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. --Oswald Chambers

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray. - Frederick Franson

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. -- Oswald Chambers

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Prayer is mans greatest power! - W. Clement Stone

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. - Chiang Kai-shek

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. - Madame de Stael

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. - Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. - Charles Bent

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. - Billy Graham

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. - Josh McDowell

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. - Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. - Philip James Bailey

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. - Leonard Cohen

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. - E. Stanley Jones

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. - John Buchan

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. - Adam Clarke

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. - John Selden

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. - George Herbert

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"The great people of the earth today are the people who pray! I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor those who explain prayer; but I mean those who actually take the time to pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. That something else is important, very important and pressing, but still, less important and pressing than prayer. There are people who put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer. These are the people today who are doing the most for God in winning souls, in solving problems, in awakening churches, in supplying both men and money for mission posts, in keeping fresh and strong their lives far off in sacrificial service on the foreign field, where the thickest fighting is going on, and in keeping the old earth sweet a little while longer." - S.D. Gordon

"Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray." - R. F. Horton

"Time spent alone with God is not wasted. It changes us; it changes our surroundings; and every Christian who would live the life that counts, and who would have power for service must take time to pray." - M.E. Andross

Make time to pray. "The great freight and passenger trains are never too busy to stop for fuel. No matter how congested the yards may be, no matter how crowded the schedules are, no matter how many things demand the attention of the trainmen, those trains always stop for fuel." - M.E. Andross

"There is no other activity in life so important as that of prayer. Every other activity depends upon prayer for its best efficiency." - M.E. Andross

"…the man on his knees has leverage underneath the mountain which can cast it into the sea, if necessary, and can force all earth and heaven to recognize the power there is in 'His name.'" - M.E. Andross

When prayer has become secondary, or incidental, it has lost its power. Those who are conspicuously men of prayer are those who use prayer as they use food, or air, or light, or money." - M.E. Andross

"If the Christian does not allow prayer to drive sin out of his life, sin will drive prayer out of his life. Like light and darkness, the two cannot dwell together." - M.E. Andross

"We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth." - Andrew Murray

"...[the] power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal." - Charles H. Spurgeon

"Prayer is a spiritual law which cooperates with the mind of God. It has more in it than merely petition. It clothes itself in reality and power, with the force of God Himself. It is an attitude of spirit and mind. Language is secondary in true prayer." - Gossner.

"What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use— men of prayer, men mighty in prayer" - E.M. Bounds

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." - Oswald Chambers.

"It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer" - George Müller

"Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer." - R. A. Torrey

"Prayer can never be in excess." - C. H. Spurgeon

GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 2

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. Alex Grey It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. Rod Parsley It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. Stockwell Day It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. Naguib Mahfouz Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. Rick Allen Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. John Edward Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. Mohandas Gandhi Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. Harold Brodkey Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. Samuel Butler Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. Anna Lee

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GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 01

1. "You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed." A.J. Gordon

2. "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." John Wesley (Famous evangelist who spent 2 hours daily in prayer)

3. "Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces." S.D. Gordon

4. "One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer."

5. "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray." S.D. Gordon

6. "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer. Martin Luther

7. "The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray." Chuck Smith

8. "Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God." Chuck Smith

9. "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." Sidlow Baxter

10. "God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil …" E.M. Bounds

GOD, PLEASE MAKE ME LIGHT

PRAYER by Elizabeth Goudge

O Saviour of the world, teach us how to pray

for those who are lost in desolations of darkness

without the knowledge of the mercy that is yourself.

Give us penitence for the evil in ourselves which has

added to the darkness of the world, and if there be

any small thing we can do to lighten any misery,

show us what it is and help us to do it. Teach us

how to pray with the compassion which is not afraid

to suffer with those who suffer and, if need be,

to enter into darkness with them.




—ELIZABETH GOUDGE

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside still waters; He restores my soul.

He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley

I will fear no evil; for you are with me;

Your rod and your staff —they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

You annoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

All the days of my life,

And I shall dwell in the house

of the Lord my whole life long.



—PSALM 23

YOU ARE THAT - Prayer Quotes by Rumi

If you are in search of the place

of the soul, you are the soul.

If you are in search of a morsel

of bread, you are the bread.

If you know this secret,

then you know

that whatever you seek,

you are that.

Prayer Quotes by Abdul Baha

O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit.

Purify my heart. Illumine my powers.

I lay all my affairs in Thy hand.

Thou art my Guide and my Refuge.

I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved;

I will be a happy and joyful being. O God!

I will no longer be full of anxiety,

nor will I let trouble harass me. I will not

dwell on the unpleasant things of life.

O God! Thou art more friend to me

than I am to myself. I dedicate myself

to Thee, O Lord.


—‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ

TEACH ME TO SURRENDER - by Lama Surya Das

Lord and Master, teach me

to surrender totally to thee,

To let go and give myself completely,

To abandon all petty self-centered concerns

And dissolve my illusory sense of separateness

in the great sea of your omnipresence,

To ignite my life as a lamp

to illumine the world

With that ever-shining light

And to serve you by serving one and all—

And, by constantly remembering

and following thy example,

Let my life reflect thy wisdom

all day long.



—LAMA SURYA DAS