Prayer Quotes - Page 38

• Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Leader, Power Of God, Command

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Praying, Sin, Intimate

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• Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Numbers, Soul, Our Words

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• Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Lying, Gods Will, Praying To God

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• Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

  William Gurnall

  Promise, Argument

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.135

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• Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

  William Gurnall

  Art, Children, New Life

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.294

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• Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Expression, Way, Faith In God

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• We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Children, Father, Godly

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• It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

  Ole Hallesby

  Soul, Quiet, Contemplation

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

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• Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Mean, Names

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

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• Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Resurrection, Authority

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• Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Produce, United, Helplessness

  "Prayer".

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• We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Needs, Safe, Way

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

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• When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

  Ole Hallesby

  Doctors, Firsts, Patient

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• When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.

  Ole Hallesby

  Heart, Names, Waiting

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

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• How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Children, Father, Mind

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• Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Moving, Mean, Accomplishment

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Ideas, Giving, Temptation

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.

  John of Kronstadt

  Children, People, Parent

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• When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

  John of Kronstadt

  Fire, Spirit, Holy

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• People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  People, Desire, Care

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• And when you can't do nothing else - pray.

  Rod Parsley

  Praying

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• According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.

  John R. Rice

  Answers, Genuine, Asks

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.38, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Regret, Reflection, Bitter

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• Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Results, Produce, Phenomenal

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