Prayer Quotes

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. — Richard Cecil
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. — Oswald Chambers
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall… — Maria Weston Chapman
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown… — James Allen
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. — Adam Clarke
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. — Alan Cohen
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between… — William Ames
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who… — Thomas Aquinas
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every… — Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in… — F. F. Bruce
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. — Robert Breault
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I… — Aberjhani
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying. — Anthony of Padua
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else… — Kripalvananda
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The… — Unknown Author
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons. — John E. Hines
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." — Byron Katie

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