Quotes about prayer
prayer praying
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray. Martin Luther
prayer thinking firsts
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.
prayer anger praying
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
prayer judging scripture
We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.
prayer powerful believe
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
prayer hate temptation
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.
prayer let-me fewer
Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.
prayer long trying
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.
prayer blood church
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
prayer powerful tied
Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
prayer praying heard
All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.
prayer heart grandchildren
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.
prayer want praying
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
prayer heart mouths
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
prayer two today
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
prayer each-day three
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
prayer fire neglect
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
prayer half study
To pray well is the better half of study.
prayer believe men
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.
prayer three firsts
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
prayer suffering study
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
prayer believe exercise
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.
prayer neglect
I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.
prayer praying harder
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
prayer heart climbing
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
prayer powerful believe
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.
prayer knowing answers
A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer... Nick Cave
prayer moving men
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
prayer taken years
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church. Shane Claiborne
prayer years church
We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
prayer real talking
[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
prayer thinking people
There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.
prayer book native-american
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.