Prayer Quotes - Page 37

• A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

  Charles Brent

  Character, Mean, Men

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

  Charles Brent

  Thinking, Secret, Praying

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• Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

  Charles Brent

  Pet, Prejudice, Needs

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• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  Charles Brent

  Men, Hands, Voice

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

  Charles Brent

  Profound, Silence, Soul

  Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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• The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

  F.B. Meyer

  Men, Iron, Soul

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• Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.

  F.B. Meyer

  Eagles, Wings, Meditation

  F.B MEYER, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “OUR DAILY WALK”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, People, Thank God

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• The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.

  Mike Huckabee

  Feet, America, People

  Mike Huckabee's speech before the 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., February 7, 2008.

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• One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Presence Of Mind, Way

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I realize that the nation is facing problems presently that it hasn't faced in a long, long time. But you have a recourse that the unredeemed do not have. That recourse, as you well know, is the Lord. He still answers prayer!

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Long, Answers, Problem

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• Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Father, Perspective

  David Jeremiah (2016). “Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.192, NavPress

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• Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

  David Jeremiah

  Hard Work, Christianity, Results

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• When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

  T. D. Jakes

  Done, Praying, Whole

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2014

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• At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, War, Approval Rating

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• No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Giving, Judging

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• Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Thieves, Kingdoms

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Heart, Blow, Wish

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• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

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• It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

  Austin Phelps

  Men, Long, Solitude

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

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• Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.

  Austin Phelps

  Christian, Book, Journey

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• The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

  D. A. Carson

  Approval, Reputation, Praying

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• When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Fall, Heart

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• Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Believe, Doe

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.465

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• I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Sleep, Long, Soul

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.140

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