Praying Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Prayer, Moving, Mountain

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

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• The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Goal, Doe

  Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.121, Zondervan

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• There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.

  James Stalker

  Prayer, Spring, Character

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• Pray, hope, don't worry.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Worry

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• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Life, Prayer, Joy

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• Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

  John Climacus

  Spiritual, Prayer, Perfect

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• The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook

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• Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.

  Melissa Brown

  Letting Go, Father, Moving

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• As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."

  Eric Butterworth

  Moving, Feet, Action

  Eric Butterworth (1989). “The concentric perspective: what's in it from me”

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• I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

  Christopher Bollen

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, I Pray To God, Sermons

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 716-21, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XLI, 1922.

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• To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Expectations, Duration

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.43

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• What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Bravery, Jupiter

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, Mouths, Lines

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Prayer, Grief, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.69

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• Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thinking, Shadow, Watches

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1844). “Poems”, p.164

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• I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Christian, Religious, Night

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• Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Teacher, Sick, Long

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• Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Perfect, Wish

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

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• How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Blood, Justice, Literature

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• Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

  Mary Oliver

  Talking, Tree, Black

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