Our Prayers Quotes - Page 8

• God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Character, Giving

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• We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Empty, Purgatory

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• Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Humility, Doubt

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.24, Franciscan Media

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• The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail.

  Stormie Omartian

  Children, Powerful, Husband

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• By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Ease, Affliction

  John Newton (1869). “Letters: Including Several Never Before Published”, p.81

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• If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Eye, Grace

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.272

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• Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

  William Law

  Christian, Prayer, Judging

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.77

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• Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.

  Gregg Braden

  Prayer, Goal, Feelings

  Gregg Braden (2008). “The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief”, p.85, Hay House, Inc

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• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Problem, Should

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Forget, Mercy

  John Bunyan (1771). “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ... The twelfth edition, with his character”, p.137

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• All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Motivation

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Temperature

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”

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• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Moving

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• The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

  Marion G. Romney

  Prayer, Care, Efficacy

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• Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

  Cyprian

  Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving

  Saint Cyprian, Roy J. Deferrari (2007). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.232, CUA Press

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• Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

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• Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Reading, Use

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• Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even.Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Hurt, Prayer

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• The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Our Love, Determined

  Arthur W. Pink (2000). “The Ability of God: Prayers of the Apostle Paul”, p.282, Moody Publishers

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• Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Yield, Effort

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• I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

  Lou Holtz

  Prayer, Worry, Doe

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• Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.

  Cyprian

  Teacher, Art, Prayer

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