Prayer Quotes - Page 4

• There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Answers, Links

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.43, Discovery House

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• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Religion

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• To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

  Karl Barth

  Hands, Uprising, Christian Inspirational

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• It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Knowing, What Matters

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.110, SCM Press

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• Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart

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• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Laughing, Joy

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• As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

  Ole Hallesby

  Morning, Noon, Way

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

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• The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

  Mother Teresa

  Hands, Love And Kindness, Oneself

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

  A. B. Simpson

  Links, Praying To God

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• A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of 
  prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the 
  congregational setting.

  Richard Burr

  Secret, Church, Groups

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Talking, Great Things

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Worry, Praying

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• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Stress, Yoga

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Past, Men, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.4, CCEL

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• A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Secret, Needs, Inventory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.94, YWAM Publishing

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• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Gossip, Praying, Folks

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• We can do nothing without prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Can Do, Nothingness

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

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Attitude, Good Christian, Praying To God

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.

  S. D Gordon

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Laughing, Religion

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• Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Humble, Heaven

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

  William Cowper

  Devil, Knees, Saint

  William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

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• If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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