Quotes about prayer
prayer atmosphere devotion
Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer littles praying
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
prayer heart inward
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
prayer mind answers
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
prayer men pathways
Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
prayer praying study
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
prayer order needs
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
prayer moving spirit
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
prayer men religion
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
prayer done gains
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
prayer holy made
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
prayer leader power-of-god
They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.
prayer delight privilege
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
prayer path praying
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
prayer soul alone-with-god
I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
prayer heart hands
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
prayer honor aids
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
prayer men voice
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
prayer heart important
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
prayer giving perfect
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.
prayer hands perfect
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
prayer children evil
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
prayer heart passion
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
prayer men purpose
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
prayer saint bars
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
prayer heaven half
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
prayer voice waiting
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
prayer father heart
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
prayer men praying
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
prayer heart goal
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
prayer favors privilege
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
prayer hard-work sunshine
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.
prayer doe needs
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.