Prayer Quotes
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
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The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
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What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
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When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
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She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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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.
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Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
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I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
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I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
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Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
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Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.
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There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
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God shapes the world by prayer.
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Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
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We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.
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I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men
