Prayer Quotes
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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
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Purity is the fruit of prayer.
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Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
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Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
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That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.
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Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
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Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.
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Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.
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Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.
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I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
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Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
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My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
