Quotes about prayer
prayer blessing giving
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it. Adoniram Judson
prayer self world
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer issues have-faith
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
prayer humble answers
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
prayer ends
Prayer begins where our power ends.
prayer issues
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
prayer self consciousness
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
prayer home self
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
prayer mindfulness emptiness
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
prayer our-world broken
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.
prayer heart bridges
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
prayer pyramids hatred
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
prayer presidential anxiety
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side. Abraham Lincoln
prayer ems appeals
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
prayers thankful thoughts
We are just very thankful they're all safe. And our thoughts and prayers are with those who have no place to go.
prayer worry worst
Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario. Daphne Oz
prayer intelligent men
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter. Corliss Lamont
prayer rest-of-life vanishing
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. Corrie Ten Boom
prayer people christian-inspirational
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
prayer safety use
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
prayer want groups
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
prayer wings bird
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
prayer school years
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
prayer fall heart
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
prayer hypocrite hymns
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life. Dwight L. Moody
prayer taken serious-things
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
prayer men heaven
How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.
prayer heart long
There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.
prayer
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
prayer telling truth
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
prayer thinking romance
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. Orson Scott Card
prayer thinking wife
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?
prayers thanks
We don't only give thanks and prayers for those who have fallen. We also give thanks to those that still serve. David Gates