Ole Hallesby Quotes

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Faith, Christian

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Praying, Inseparable

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

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  Prayer, Pouring, Woe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Lying, Self, Circles

  "Prayer".

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• Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

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  Prayer, Heaven, Earth

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Children, Night

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• There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, May, Praying

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• Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Opportunity, Important

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

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  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Moving

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• Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Helping, Remember

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

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  Prayer, Answers, Praying

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Jesus is not made of stone. He is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior , because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Blessing, Hands

  "Prayer".

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• As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

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  Morning, Prayer, Noon

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.

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  Prayer, Dawn, Done

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Change, Prayer, Rain

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• To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Exercise

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

  Ole Hallesby

  Hands, Answers, Spirit

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

  Ole Hallesby

  Praying, Helpless

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Fate, Solitude

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Grace, Way

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• We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Needs, Safe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

  Ole Hallesby

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Desire, Praying, All Things

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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