Prayer Quotes
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.
We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.
A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.
If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.
Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.
I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.