Prayer Quotes
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
God wants us to delight in living His purpose for us, which is why our passion plays a huge part!
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.
Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.
If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.
Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
