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Prayer Quotes by Ole Hallesby
- 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…
- By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
- Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
- To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts.
- The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either…
- When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment.…
- The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity…
- Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning…
More Prayer Quotes
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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