Prayer Quotes - Page 17

• The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

  Billy Graham

  Hands, Bless, Heal

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Faith, Believe, Have Faith

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• Let me burn out for God. After all,
  whatever God may appoint, prayer
  is the great thing. Oh, that I might
  be a man of prayer!

  Henry Martyn

  Men, May, Might

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• Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Religion, Occupation

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• Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Heaven, Devotion, Tribute

  Jonathan Swift (1755). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory”, p.227

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• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  John Milton

  Cry, Incessant, Weary

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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• Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Humble, Faithful, Preparation

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• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Missionary, Study, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wine, Vision, Bread

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

  George Herbert

  Ocean, Sea, Praying

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651).

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• A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. " Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."

  Nehemiah Adams

  Humble, Names, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 460), 1895.

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• That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hero, Men, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Believe, Bows

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

  Charles Colson

  Energy, Praying, Should

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• Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Inward, Movement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.97, Fig

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• Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

  Alexander Whyte

  Men, Thinking, Calling

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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Heart, Self

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• Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

  Joseph Hall

  Home, Should, Asks

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• Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Needs, Language

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• God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

  Richard J. Needham

  Our Prayers

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• The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Memories, Heart, May

  Frederick Denison Maurice (1849). “The Lord's Prayer: Nine Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn in the Months of February, March, and April”, p.1

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• Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Heart, Wine

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• You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

  Steve Earle

  Charity, Causes, Lord

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• Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

  Hannah More

  Sometimes, Mercy, Should

  'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

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• There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.

  O. J. Simpson

  Blessed, Asks

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