Quotes about prayer
prayer spirit chains
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. John Greenleaf Whittier
prayer heart simple
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
prayer teenager home
I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life. Patti Smith
prayer war humility
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
prayer mean men
I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord. Pat Robertson
prayer powerful people
Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
prayer future feet
When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come. Ovid
prayer memories dark
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought. Marya Hornbacher
prayer believe fall
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser. Mark Haddon
prayer love-is avalon
Love is the only prayer I know. Marion Zimmer Bradley
prayer sacrifice yield
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
prayer mean mind
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Oswald Chambers
prayer secret impossible
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
prayer praying ends
We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
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.
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.