Quotes about prayer
prayer believe technology
It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions. David Jeremiah
prayer powerful moral-fiber
The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.
prayer hard-work christianity
Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
prayer children father
Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.
prayer helping praying
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
prayer sick devil
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.
prayer humble men
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
prayer journey reality
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there. Delia Smith
prayer blessed thinking
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone. Alphonsus Liguori
prayer temptation impossible
Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
prayer flower land
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
prayer praying
He who prays most receives most.
prayer soul saint
All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
prayer order giving
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.
prayer mean temptation
Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
prayer perfection temptation
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
prayer purpose doe
Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God. Chuck Smith
prayer agency purpose
Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.
prayer mind doe
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
prayer mean battle
There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.
prayer eye home
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
prayer heaven storm
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
prayer heart hands
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people. Andrew Jackson
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 soul devotion
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint William Wilberforce
prayer soul too-late
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
prayer
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
prayer telling truth
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
prayer thinking romance
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. Orson Scott Card
prayer thinking wife
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
prayers thanks
We don't only give thanks and prayers for those who have fallen. We also give thanks to those that still serve. David Gates
prayer office athletic
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears! Billy Graham
prayer voice wish
Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.