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Prayer Quotes by E. Stanley Jones
- Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.
- Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch…
- When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
- We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
- Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin…
- Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an…
- Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals…
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- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
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- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila