Best Prayer Quotes

• The best prayers have often more groans than words.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Spirit of Prayer”, p.33

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• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.

  Carl Fredrik Wisløff

  Prayer, May, Praying

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• There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

  John G. Lake

  Prayer, Differences, Praying

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.154, Whitaker House

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

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• Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Reading, Law

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Classroom, Revival

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Missionary, Study

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Saint, Bars

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Faith, Prayer, Believe

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Tasks, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Honor, Aids

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• God shapes the world by prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, World, Shapes

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Attitude, Good Christian

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Sweet, Prayer, Practice

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.20, Baker Books

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