Prayer Quotes
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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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A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
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It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
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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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Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?
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We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
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I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.
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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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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.
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A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
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Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
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God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
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Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
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Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink
