Prayer Quotes
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I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
R. C. Sproul
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God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
J. D. Greear
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One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
Bill Hybels
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
Nat Turner
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Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise.
Taliesin
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My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
Darin Strauss
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers
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Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J. I. Packer
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
J. D. Salinger
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When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.
Park Bo-gum
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Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.
David Jeremiah
