Quotes about prayer
prayer thinking firsts
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- Brennan Manning
prayer men essence
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
prayer firsts acts-of-love
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
prayer crazy fire-of-love
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
prayer love-you past
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
prayer struggle fighting
I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family. Brian Cashman
prayer scream results
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results. Brendan Behan
prayer mind magic
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind Boyd Rice
prayer blessing today
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today Jan Karon
prayer lying believe
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue. Juvenal
prayer health mind
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
prayer book men
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]
prayer causality dignity
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. Blaise Pascal
prayer each-day rooms
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
prayer discipline desperation
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. Bill Hybels
prayer father want
God wants us...to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
prayer fall writing
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
prayer exercise equipment
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
prayer moving focus
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
prayer leader arguing
We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heart people
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
prayer chance habit
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
prayer hands use
Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.
prayer goal ears
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
prayer motivation inspiration
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.
prayer needs said
If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
prayer men praying
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
prayer blessed soul
Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!
prayer heart soul
There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that.
prayer perfect wavering
The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!
prayer answers minutes
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
prayer believe numbers
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.
prayer eye men
Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.