Quotes about pray
prayer successful confession
For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession. Charles Spurgeon
prayer shadow mercy
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.
prayer heart ravens
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
prayer opportunity giving
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
prayer heart goal
We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of it may have kindled devotional feeling in our minds, the hearing of it may have comforted and strengthened the hearts of those with whom we have prayed, but if the prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose.
prayer men shining
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
prayer motivation inspiration
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.
prayer long praying
Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
prayer nine neglect
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
praying machinery praying-to-god
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
prayer moving omnipotence
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
prayer important answers
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
prayer gun fire
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.
prayer knees study
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
prayer pay requirements
Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.
prayer giving weakness
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.
prayer birth-place evil
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
prayer grief heart
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.
prayer grief blessing
In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!
prayer believe practice
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.
prayer believe heart
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
prayer asking kingdoms
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom
prayer enemy bones
Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
prayer church saint
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
prayer flower long
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.
prayer heart ghost
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.
prayer grace thermometers
Prayer is the thermometer of grace.
prayer mean trying
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains. Alan Bennett
prayer expectations praying
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
prayer matter messages
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
prayer humility men
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
prayer talking
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
prayer wish desire
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.