Prayer Quotes
You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.
In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.
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.
To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.
If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.
The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
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.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
