Quotes about prayer
prayer selfish reading
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything. Oswald Chambers
prayer real soul
The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
prayer children simple
Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
prayer two waiting
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
prayer sixty-minutes tests
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
prayer walks impart
Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
prayer self important
The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.
prayer cover-ups use
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
prayer silence bigger
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.
prayer waiting trying
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
prayer exercise
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
prayer heart thinking
If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on.
prayer moral mysterious
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
prayer giving understanding
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
prayer character two
The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.
prayer views perfect
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
prayer humble thinking
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.
prayer people answers
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
prayer answers redemption
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
prayer reality men
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
prayer order perfect
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
prayer character way
Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
prayer son men
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
prayer preparation church
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
prayer men giving
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
prayer mean asking
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
prayer needs praying
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
prayer purpose presence-of-god
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
prayer way intercession
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.
prayer effort
Prayer is an effort of will.
prayer trying answers
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
prayer mind answers
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
prayer dawn foolish
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.