Prayer Quotes - Page 22

• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Power

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

  Ruth Graham

  Inspirational, Heart, Tough

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• Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

  John Mott

  Christian, Religion, Consideration

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• We little know the things for which we pray.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Littles, Praying, Knows

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• Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love, Family, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Sep 16, 2015

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• Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

  William Carey

  Lying, Believe, Roots

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

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Mean, Praying To God, Ifs

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

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• An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.

  Elbridge Bryant

  Stress, Anxiety, Hours

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• I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Praying, Teach

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• Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Spirit

  Charles Grandison Finney (2002). “The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney”, p.160, Harper Collins

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• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

  Will Rogers

  America, United States, Conservative

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• Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

  Thomas Hooker

  Christian, Religious, Work

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• You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Needs, Might

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 19, 2015

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• Each person's prayers can help everyone.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Helping, Persons

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.197, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Prayer can never be in excess.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Excess

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• I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Light

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• As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Fall, Winter, White

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• Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

  Richard Baxter

  People, Praying, Preaching

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.125

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• God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Promise

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments ...: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents : the Sacred Text Inserted at Large in Distinct Paragraphs : Largely Illustrated with Practical Remarks and Observations”, p.252

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• The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Heart, Broken, Soul

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• It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  God, Religious, Time

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• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Dumb, Answers

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Parent

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ought, Lays, Earnestness

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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