Quotes about prayer
prayer wife making-love
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. J. I. Packer
prayer children father
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
prayer simple meditation
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
prayer answers made
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
prayer treasure may
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God. Jeremy Taylor
prayer meditation soul
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.
prayer garden office
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.
prayer may praying
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
prayer lying hands
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
prayer
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
prayer men looks
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.
prayer heart sacrifice
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
prayer needs body
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
prayer two three
I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. Jeremy Lin
prayer answers addresses
Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance. Jeff Cohen
prayer school united-states
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up. Jeff Cooper
prayer wish irs
Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer. Georges Bernanos
prayer wish praying
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
prayer believer true-believer
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day. George Whitefield
prayer silent week
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world George Sand
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.