God Prayer Quotes

• Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

  Thomas Chalmers

  God, Christian, Religious

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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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• 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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• Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• 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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• Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

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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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• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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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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• Pray, and let God worry.

  Martin Luther

  Trust, Encouraging, Hope

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1975). “Letters”

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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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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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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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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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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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• 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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• More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Spiritual, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Praying, Short Prayer

  "Prayer: A Holy Occupation".

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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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• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

  Martin Luther

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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