Prayer Quotes
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
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There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
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Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.
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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.
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My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
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The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
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It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
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Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.'
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
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Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
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God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body
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Then a man sees that the Kingdom of Heaven is truly within us; and seeing it now in himself, he strives with pure prayer to keep it and strengthen it there.
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We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
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Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
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Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
