Quotes about pray
prayer believe causes
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer. J. C. Ryle
prayer knees wells
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
prayer book heart
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
prayer believe past
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
prayer heart eye
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
prayer mean blessing
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come. Isaac Watts
prayer discovery answers
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. Isaac Newton
prayer mistake woven
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel. Hannah Kent
prayer light air
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.
prayer struggle home
I don't like when people say, 'I'll pray for you. I'm going to pray for you. Praying for you.' You're going to pray for me? So you're going to sit at home and do nothing? 'Cause that's what your prayers are; you doing nothing while I struggle with a situation. Don't pray for me - make me a sandwich or something. Hannibal Buress
prayer sometimes mercy
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. Hannah More
prayer book reading
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
prayer rain blessing
What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.
prayer eloquence compunction
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
prayer soul feelings
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
pray prayer stay
I'll pray for you, that you stay safe.
prayer thanks
I really say a prayer of thanks and that she was able to go.
prayers
I don't know if this was a must win. But I know my prayers were answered.
prayers pulled thanks
I don't know how we pulled that one out. We have to say our prayers of thanks on that one.
prayer practice ties
The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world. Jack Kornfield
prayer commitment practice
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
prayer meals bed
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. Jack Dempsey
prayer mean thinking
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so! J. D. Salinger
prayer spirit sin
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. J. I. Packer
prayer vigor matter
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
prayer men expression
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.
prayer guarantees-that judging
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
prayer unique reality
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
prayer responsibility heart
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
prayer wife making-love
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
praying sovereignty impotence
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
prayer children father
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
prayer simple meditation
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.