Prayer Quotes
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Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
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Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
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To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
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It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
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Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to 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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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.
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I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
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We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
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Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.
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The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.
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Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.
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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
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Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
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Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.
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Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
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If we would gain light either on the theory or the practice of religion: i. We must sincerely desire the light. 2. We must use the light we already have. 3. We must patiently seek light in the double way of prayer and rational inquiry. Never, as long as the world stands, will any religiously benighted soul thus patiently desire and pray and labor for the break of day, without at last seeing the eyelids of the morn unsealed, and the painfully dusky east gradually redden into the sun.
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I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
