Quotes about prayer
prayer engagement eating
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. Elizabeth McCracken
prayer wish praying-to-god
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
prayer results boldness
Prayer in private results in boldness in public. Edwin Louis Cole
prayer obedience produce
A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
prayer spring lying
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
prayer men answers
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
prayer believe thinking
People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law. Edward Kennedy
prayer educational self
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer bounds plenty
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
prayer honor aids
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
prayer men causes
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
prayer praying born
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
prayer practice perfect
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
prayer men earth
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
prayer design heaven
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
prayer doe ministry
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
prayer world shapes
God shapes the world by prayer.
prayer men needs
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
prayer can-do nothingness
We can do nothing without prayer.
prayer past men
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
prayer hero men
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
prayer heart age
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
prayer heart voice
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
prayer air evil
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
prayer flower acceptance
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
prayer weapons formidable
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
prayer promise add
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
prayer evil generations
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
prayer powerful littles
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
prayer believe littles
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
prayer growing purity
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
prayer office doe
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
prayer routine gone
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.