Ole Hallesby Quotes

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• Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
• As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even…
• It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our…
• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your…
• Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer…
• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to…
• Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any…
• Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.
• There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat…
• To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power…
• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks…
• To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means…
• 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…
• When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to…
• When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then…
• The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
• The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the…
• Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the…
• To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the…
• By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.

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