Prayerful Quotes

• When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fades

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• Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

  D. A. Carson

  Way, Anxious

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians”, p.73, Baker Books

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• The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Godly, Reflection

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• Jesus has given me ample resources to meet the spiritual needs of others because He has given me Himself and He has give me His Word. But in order to meet the spiritual needs of the multitude, I have to spend hours alone with Him in the prayerful meditation of His Word so that my spiritual needs are met.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Jesus, Order

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

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Regret, Prayer, Reflection

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• In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Silence, Looks

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• Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

  William Arthur Ward

  Persistence, Wish, World

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• The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Profound

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• Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scriptures in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Moving, Meditation

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  And Love, Sympathy And Love

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• ‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

  J. C. Ryle

  Humble, Proud, Students

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• There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Errors, Receiving, Study

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17”, p.73, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

  James B. Martino

  Perspective, Forgiving, Working Together

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• The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Matter, Sufficient

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.52, Multnomah

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• I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

  Heber J. Grant

  Success, Heart, Humble

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• A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Stakes

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• A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Purpose, Done

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.23, Convergent Books

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• Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Silence, Use

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.123, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

  Mark Buchanan

  Disappointment, Thinking, Reflection

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• We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

  Michelle Obama

  Humble, Roots, Luck

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• A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Vegetarianism, Space

  "From R to Z".

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