Prayer Quotes - Page 9

• Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Godly, Men, Christian Inspirational

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.18, Christian Publishing House

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• Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Men, Agency

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Moral, Mysterious, Spirit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.78, Discovery House

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• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  Socrates

  Blessed, Philosophical, Blessing

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• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  God, Wisdom, Truth

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• Prayer is a shield to the soul

  John Bunyan

  Soul, Shields

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

  Herman Melville

  Soul, Draws

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.34

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• Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Worship, Reason

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• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Softball, Christian, Brevity

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophy, Soul, Asking

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

  R. A. Torrey

  Believe, Talking, Should Have

  R.A Torrey, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOW TO PRAY”, Lulu.com

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• We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

  Oswald Chambers

  Praying, Wits End, Ends

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

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• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Art, Giving

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• Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, God, Father

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

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• It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grief, Heart, Volcanoes

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.577, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

  Richard Sibbes

  Confused, Picks

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.75, Titus Books

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Ministry

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Teaching, Done

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

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• He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

  Saint Augustine

  Littles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 464, 1895.

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• Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

  John Hardon

  Believe, Doe, Definitions

  John A. Hardon (1971). “Christianity in the Twentieth Century”

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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, God, Faith

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• Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Self, Feelings

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• I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans.

  Francis Frangipane

  Christian, Spiritual, War

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• The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

  John Bunyan

  Gold, Treasure, Spirit

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

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• Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

  David Wolpe

  Careers, Decision, World

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