Our Prayers Quotes

• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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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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• The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

  Richard Alleine

  Prayer, Heart, Answers

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.350

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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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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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Powerful, Men, Our Love

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• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Forgiveness, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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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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• God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Prayer, Answers, Wiser

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• We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Praying, Wits End

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, People, Our Love

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.273, Zondervan

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• Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Prayer, Mean, Praying To God

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

  Will Rogers

  Prayer, Mean, Lasts

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.220, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Believe, Talking

  R.A Torrey, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOW TO PRAY”, Lulu.com

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Prayer, Teaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

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• Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Personality, Moments

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Practice, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.391

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• I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

  Josephine Baker

  Prayer, Believe, Heaven

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• It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

  Dalai Lama

  Cheating, Prayer, Helping Others

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.103, Penguin Books India

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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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