Quotes about prayer
prayer believe practice
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency. Charles Spurgeon
prayer believe heart
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
prayer asking kingdoms
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom
prayer enemy bones
Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
prayer church saint
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
prayer flower long
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.
prayer heart ghost
Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.
prayer grace thermometers
Prayer is the thermometer of grace.
prayer mean trying
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains. Alan Bennett
prayer expectations praying
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
prayer matter messages
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
prayer humility men
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
prayer talking
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
prayer wish desire
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
prayer our-time
[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.
prayer revival amendments
Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.
prayer book gold
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
prayer sacred occupation
Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.
prayer delegates
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
prayer evil long
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
prayer offering waste
Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.
prayer keys praying
The key to prayer is simply praying.
prayer men doe
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
prayer men worship
Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
prayer believe men
Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.
prayer recovery angel
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light. Chris Bohjalian
prayer loss reason-why
Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer. I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He's the greatest, the best ever. No one will ever be better. Chris Brown
prayer men good-man
The life of a good man is a continual prayer. Charlotte Lennox
prayer giving-up book
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. Charles Lamb
prayer gay years
I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.
prayer mean men
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. Charles Bent
prayer real desire
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
prayer might knees
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.