Prayer Quotes - Page 15

• I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Praying, Christian Prayer

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• Go where your best prayers take you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Best Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 22, 2013

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• Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

  Harold B. Lee

  Life Is, Handle, Fragile

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• The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Flower, People, Giving

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Might

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• Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Men, Miracle, Praying

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Care, Intellect

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• Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tests, Enterprise, Submit

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Overcoming, Done, Gains

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

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

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• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Country, Spiritual, Awakening

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• If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Two, Victory

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• Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

  S. D Gordon

  Doe, Purpose, Action

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• Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

  Tryon Edwards

  Thinking, Denial, Delay

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Tasks, Praying, Equal

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

  Alexander Whyte

  Spiritual, Sweat, Cost

  Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

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• To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Struggle, Mean, Spirit

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Hands, If There Is A God

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• The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

  Robert Breault

  Good Intentions, Intention, Objects

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• Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Together, Way, Workers

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.23, Zondervan

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• God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

  Adoniram Judson

  Blessing, Giving, God Love

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

  S. D Gordon

  Blow, Winning, Pieces

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• Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, Christian, Religious

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.158, SPCK

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• We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Important, Answers, Letters

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.24, Bridge Logos Inc

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