Praying Quotes - Page 6

• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Shoes, Knees

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• Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Heart, Catholic

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• Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Tasks, Equal

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

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• What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Prayer, Men, Sheep

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• He prayeth best who loveth best.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Dear God, I Pray To God

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

  John Masefield

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Men

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Wits End, Ends

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

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• Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

  Gautama Buddha

  Endurance, Stronger, Burden

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• The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

  Duke of Wellington

  Prayer, Religion, Moral

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• It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

  Charles Spurgeon

  Strong, Prayer, Use

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (18??). “Spurgeon's Sermons: Being Twelve of the Most Memorable Sermons Ever Delivered”

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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

  Prayer, Believe, Talking

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

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• Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

  Mary Slessor

  Prayer, Lying, Hands

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• The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Catholic, Rosary, Saint

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Sinning

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• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Soul, Wish

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• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Regret, Godly

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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Wine, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.133

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• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Prayer, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Prayer, Wish

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.299

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, God, Religious

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

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