Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Martin Luther

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Martin Luther

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Martin Luther

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Martin Luther

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Martin Luther

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

Martin Luther

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Martin Luther

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Martin Luther

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Martin Luther

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Martin Luther

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Martin Luther

To pray well is the better half of study.

Martin Luther

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

Martin Luther

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Martin Luther

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Martin Luther

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

Martin Luther

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Martin Luther

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Martin Luther

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Martin Luther

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Nick Cave

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...

Nick Cave

be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down

Scott Simon

Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?

Ray Charles

When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.

Ravi Zacharias

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.

Sitting Bull

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

Rajneesh

Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

Rajneesh

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.