Prayer Quotes
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation.
It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.
Mother Teresa
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Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.
J. I. Packer
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If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Andrew Murray
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Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
Andrew Murray
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Water were your limbsAnd the fire was your hairAnd then the moon caught your eye,and you rose through the air.Well if you've seen true light,then this is my prayer:Will you call meWhen you get there?
Joanna Newsom
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Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.
J. C. Ryle
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
Martin Luther
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Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.
Karen Wheaton
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A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?
Stanley Hauerwas
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
Willa Cather
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Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
John Arbuthnot
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A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.
Oswald Chambers
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If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
J. D. Salinger