Best Prayer Quotes - Page 2

• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

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• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Mothers Day, Thank You

  Abraham Lincoln, James Baird McClure (2006). “Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln”, p.46, Stackpole Books

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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  'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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• Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Prayer, Children

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Anchor

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• A good deed is the best prayer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4651, Library of Alexandria

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• Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Heart, Effects

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

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• The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

  Julia Cameron

  Prayer, Artist, Grace

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 18, 2017

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• There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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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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• There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, World, Sin

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• Go where your best prayers take you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 22, 2013

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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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• The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, World, Had Enough

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• Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Two, Helping

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Anchor

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• 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

  Alice Walker

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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