Prayer Quotes - Page 7

• The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

  S. D Gordon

  Men, Praying, Revival

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• Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Hands, Giving

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Fighting, Space

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• The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

  Jim Cymbala

  Heart, Effort, Devil

  FaceBook post by Pastor Jim Cymbala from May 09, 2015

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• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Routine, Gone, Rotten

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

  Adrian Rogers

  Morning, Athlete, Doors

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• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Regret, Godly, Men

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• When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

  Philip Yancey

  Love, God, Christian

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• The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

  Richard Alleine

  Heart, Answers, Reason Why

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.350

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• Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.

  F.B. Meyer

  Running, Fall, Mean

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• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Saint, Bars, Prison

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• Prayer succeeds when all else fails

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Succeed, Failing

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Motivation, Inspiration

  Charles Spurgeon, T. De Witt Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Joseph Parker (2017). “Gems of Truth & Beauty”, p.192, Gideon House Books

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• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Heaven

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• Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

  John Bunyan

  Soul, Pouring, Spirit

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

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• The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Order, Discipline

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Bethge (1974). “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”, p.64, Augsburg Books

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• What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Sheep, Hands

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Machinery, Meetings

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• Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to remove the mountains hindering us.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Moving, Mountain, Spirit

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.29, Zondervan

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• The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

  Oswald Chambers

  Character, Two, Discipline

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• The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

  F.B. Meyer

  Tragedy, Life Is, Prayer Life

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• You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Needs, Cry

  Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

  Edwin Keith Thomson

  Spiritual, Men, Exhaling

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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Powerful, Littles, Acquaintance

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

  John Calvin

  Powerful, Men, Self

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