Our Prayers Quotes - Page 14

• God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

  J. D. Greear

  God, Religious, Prayer

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• In prayer and in every work of your life avoid suspicious ness, doubt and diabolical imaginations. Let your spiritual eye be single, in order that the whole body of your prayer, of your works and of your life may be light.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

  Avril Lavigne

  Prayer, Issues, Feelings

  "Avril Lavigne Asks Fans To #PrayForAvril While Suffering From Mystery Illness" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 09, 2014.

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• The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Heart, Ideas

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.33, HarperCollins

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• If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Responsibility, Hands

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.103, Editora Dracaena

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• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Long, Looks

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• Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Blessing

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• Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

  Peter Kreeft

  Kings, Prayer, Mean

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• God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Want, Praying

  Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.238, Zondervan

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• Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Helping, Praying

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Spirit, Holy

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.100, Discovery House

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• Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strong, Prayer, Exercise

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• You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Believe, Trusting Him

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• When you pray, remember that you are not praying to a distant God, but to the God that dwells within you. Don't just speak the words; feel what they mean in your life. Don't pray from your lips, but from your heart. Your prayers aren't for God, they are for you, to remind you of the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. When you say "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," remember that you are loved and protected. God has planned greater things for us than we can imagine. The more we maintain an awareness of God's unchanging love, the safer and more at home we will feel in the world.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Prayer, Mean, Home

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• What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Pain, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Giving, Needs

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.157, Gospel Light Publications

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• Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Suffering

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

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• Some of the qualities of #‎ God must
  be merged into us before our
  #‎ prayers can be fit for His
  acceptance.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Acceptance, Quality

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.97, Discovery House

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• Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is an act of humility. Fasting gives opportunity for deeper humility as we recognize our sins, repent, receive God's forgiveness, and experience His cleansing of our soul and spirit. Fasting also demonstrates our love for God and our full confidence in His faithfulness.

  Bill Bright

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

  Agnes Baker Pilgrim

  Mother, Prayer, Earth Day

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• God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Insulting

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.6, Zondervan

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• Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Scripts

  Mark Batterson (2011). “Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems”, p.7, Zondervan

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• The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered. Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered.

  Gregg Braden

  Gratitude, Prayer, Opportunity

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• People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

  Jill Briscoe

  Inspirational, Prayer, Helping Others

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