Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miroslav Volf

After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

R. A. Torrey

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

R. A. Torrey

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

R. A. Torrey

When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.

R. A. Torrey

If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

R. A. Torrey

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

R. A. Torrey

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

R. A. Torrey

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God...

R. A. Torrey

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

R. A. Torrey

Every true revival . . . has had its earthly origin in prayer.

R. A. Torrey

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

R. A. Torrey

Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

R. A. Torrey

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

R. A. Torrey

All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.

R. A. Torrey

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

R. A. Torrey

The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

R. C. Sproul

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

R. C. Sproul

In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

R. C. Sproul

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

R. C. Sproul

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

R. C. Sproul

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Pope Paul VI

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Kinky Friedman

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Kinky Friedman

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

Oprah Winfrey

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

Oprah Winfrey

I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.

Oprah Winfrey

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Oliver North

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Margaret Atwood

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

Margaret Atwood

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Oscar Wilde

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Oswald Chambers

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.