Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Martin Luther

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Martin Luther

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

Martin Luther

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Martin Luther

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Martin Luther

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Martin Luther

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Martin Luther

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Martin Luther

To pray well is the better half of study.

Martin Luther

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

Martin Luther

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

Martin Luther

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

Martin Luther

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Martin Luther

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Martin Luther

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Martin Luther

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Nick Cave

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...

Nick Cave

be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down

Ovid

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

Marya Hornbacher

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought.

Mark Haddon

One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Love is the only prayer I know.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Oswald Chambers

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

Oswald Chambers

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

Oswald Chambers

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Oswald Chambers

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.