Often Quotes

12289 Often quotes by 6196 unique authors

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but… — Eugene H. Peterson
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled… — Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The best prayers have often more groans than words. — John Bunyan
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask… — Oswald Chambers
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Xenocrates
Vote early and vote often. — Al Capone
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. — Michael Korda
I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last. — Unknown Author
A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right… — Madeleine Stowe
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too… — Brother Lawrence
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer… — John Bunyan
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections. — William Gurnall
How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can… — Hannah Whitall Smith
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade… — William Barclay
Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most… — Lee Strobel

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