Quotes about prayer
prayer half study
To pray well is the better half of study. Martin Luther
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 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 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.