Prayer Quotes
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Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
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Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
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Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!
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Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life.
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The prayer is up to us; the answer is up to God.
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.
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When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.
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The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.
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Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
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Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.
