Prayer Quotes
You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.
All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
