Prayer Quotes
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If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.
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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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What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.
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I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.
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I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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God shapes the world by prayer.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
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The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
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It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.
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Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.
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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
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All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
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Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
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I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.
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Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!
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In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
