Praying Quotes - Page 5

• Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Littles, Bounds

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.68, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

  William J. McGill

  Prayer, Consistent, Values

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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

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

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• And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

  John Keble

  Prayer, Helping

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.4

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• A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Prayer

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ernest Bell, Andrew Moore (2009). “Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune”, p.34, Mondial

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Prayer, Doe

  "Is There a Yoga of the Heart?" by Roger S. Gottlieb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

  Rick Warren

  Trying, Limits, Satan

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 28, 2012

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• Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Prayer, Men, Miracle

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Atheist, Prayer

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• This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Heaven

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Trip to Heaven and Hell". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez,

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• Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Busy

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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• I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Men, Christian Prayer

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• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Missionary, Study

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Trouble, Perplexity

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• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Reality, Men

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

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• Are you living for the things you are praying for?

  Austin Phelps

  Prayer

  AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.29

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• To pray well is the better half of study.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Half, Study

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Farce

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• O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Men, Miracle

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

  Philip James Bailey

  Spiritual, Prayer, I Pray To God

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.381

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• The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

  Chuck Smith

  Christian, Prayer, Important

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• God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Vices

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