Quotes about pray
prayer believe littles
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer growing purity
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
prayer office doe
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
prayer routine gone
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
prayer hands
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
prayer way praying
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
prayer father son
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
prayer powerful lying
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
prayer moving long
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
prayer grace walking-with-god
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.
prayer people world
No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
prayer study praying
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
prayer giving affair
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
prayer absence holy
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
prayer humility pride
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
prayer evil world
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
prayer preparation essentials
Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
prayer classroom revival
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
prayer believe church
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
prayer moving angel
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.
prayer humility godly
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
prayer men giving
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
prayer men praying
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
prayer shapes world
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
prayer promise limits
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
prayer law speak
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
prayer lawlessness anarchy
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
prayer wealth access
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
prayer purpose praying
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
prayer character thinking
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.
prayer heaven world
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.
prayer giving littles
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
prayer men gods-plan
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.