I Pray To God Quotes

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

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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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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• 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 eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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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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• 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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• 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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• I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

  Elizabeth I

  Hype, Deception, Praying

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• He prayeth best who loveth best.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Dear God, Praying

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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• He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Life, Prayer

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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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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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  George Meredith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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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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• 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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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

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• I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

  John Masefield

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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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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• 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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• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  Adam Clarke

  Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational

  Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

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• Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, God, Religious

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

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• Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Motivation

  Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

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• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spiritual, Prayer, Praying

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.381

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