Quotes about prayer
prayer heaven grace
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven. J. C. Ryle
prayer heart together
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
prayer firsts neglect
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
prayer grace may
Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.
prayer believe causes
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
prayer knees wells
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
prayer book heart
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
prayer believe past
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
prayer heart eye
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
prayer mean blessing
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come. Isaac Watts
prayer discovery answers
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. Isaac Newton
prayer mistake woven
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel. Hannah Kent
prayer light air
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.
prayer struggle home
I don't like when people say, 'I'll pray for you. I'm going to pray for you. Praying for you.' You're going to pray for me? So you're going to sit at home and do nothing? 'Cause that's what your prayers are; you doing nothing while I struggle with a situation. Don't pray for me - make me a sandwich or something. Hannibal Buress
prayer sometimes mercy
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. Hannah More
prayer book reading
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
prayer rain blessing
What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.
prayer eloquence compunction
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
prayer soul feelings
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
prayers
I don't know if this was a must win. But I know my prayers were answered.
prayer needs helping
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy John Piper
prayer affliction ease
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. John Newton
prayer eye grace
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.
prayer answers gods-will
God will do nothing but in answer to prayer. John Wesley
prayer america mind
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
prayer holiness neglect
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
prayer thinking suffering
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
prayer action
Prayer is where the action is.
prayer doe inspirational-prayer
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
prayer believe doe
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
prayer way made
Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.
prayer air soul
God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.
prayer soul desire
In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.