Quotes about prayer
prayer curiosity saving
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties. Anthony Burgess
prayer self moments
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. Andre Gide
prayer rain believe
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared. Ann Romney
prayer husband crazy
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. Anne Graham Lotz
prayer artist giving
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer. Andres Segovia
prayer responsibility focus
Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him. Christopher Parkening
prayer giving mind
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. Anselm of Canterbury
prayer love-is men
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. Anouk Aimee
prayer heart past
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears? Anne Bronte
prayer names giving
I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship. Angie Harmon
prayer heart choices
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Amy Carmichael
prayer soul relief
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
prayer father ministers
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. Anna Lee
prayer arms belief
To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. Anne Sexton
prayer poetry
Poetry to me is prayer ...
prayer heart needs
Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
prayer fall love-is
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
prayer guy waiting
Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that! Anne Rice
prayer firsts conversation
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. Andrew Sullivan
prayer humility trying
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.. Andy Murray
prayer wish doe
Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
prayer people praying
Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.
prayer thinking unexpected
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think.
prayer men praying-to-god
We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
prayer secret earth
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
prayer rain blessing
The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.
prayer voice secret
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
prayer fall feet
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
prayer cost may
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
prayer heart giving
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
prayer men influence-and-power
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."
prayer mean abiding
Abiding fully means praying much.
prayer father secret
Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.