Praying Quotes

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Scripts

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• And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

  Mark Batterson

  Bases, Happens, Things Happen

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Nov 08, 2015

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• It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

  Bill Hybels

  Coincidence

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.18, SPCK

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• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Prayer, Passion

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• Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

  Franklin Graham

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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• Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.

  Jerry Bridges

  Country, Brother, Kings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.81, NavPress

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• Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

  Chip Ingram

  Said, Feels

  Chip Ingram (2015). “The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare”, p.132, Baker Books

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• A Christian who isn't praying, is only playing!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian

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• CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

  William Gurnall

  Sin, Cease

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• We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

  D. A. Carson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Plans

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.19, Baker Academic

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• Pray, and let God worry.

  Martin Luther

  Trust, Encouraging, Hope

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1975). “Letters”

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• If you're too busy to pray...you're too busy

  Mother Teresa

  Busy, Too Busy, Ifs

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• If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Hands, Should Have, Depends

  Dwight L Moody (1998). “Men God Challenged: Moody Classics Series”, p.45, Moody Publishers

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• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Men, Expression

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• The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Want, Littles

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• A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Father, Clothes

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2010

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• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Breathing, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “A Call to Prayer”, p.6, Editora Dracaena

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• It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

  Jim George

  Prayer, Schedules, Realizing

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional”, p.137, Harvest House Publishers

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• God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Answers

  Twitter post from Aug 21, 2015

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

  Frank Laubach

  Running, Prayer, Ideas

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• In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Faith, Prayer, Health

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