Quotes about pray
prayer college men
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. John Mott
prayer hands mind
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. John Calvin
prayer fasting worship
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
prayer treasure sovereign
To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
prayer mercy
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
prayer heart joy
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
prayer ignorance would-be
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
prayer godly tyrants
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
prayer doubtful
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
prayer exercise chiefs
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
prayer answers facts
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
prayer thinking wish
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
prayer long answers
I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a recourse that the unredeemed do not have. That recourse, as you well know, is the Lord. He still answers prayer! Jimmy Swaggart
prayer night roots
In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night. Gabriela Mistral
prayer heart thrones
Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart. Franklin Graham
prayer moving speak
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer. Francois Fenelon
prayer desire praying
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
prayer work ought
Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
prayer desire praying
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
prayer occupation speak
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
prayer weakness praying
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
prayer praying trouble
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
prayer faithful regularity
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
prayer blessing opportunity
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.
prayer two attention
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
prayer passion listening
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
prayer praying granted
He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.
prayer father heart
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.
prayer essentials christianity
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
prayer pain real
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death? George Crabbe
prayer real heaven
In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature. Eknath Easwaran
prayer forget mercy
In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies. John Bunyan
prayer blessed heaven
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.