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Prayer Quotes by Watchman Nee
- Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
- Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without…
- We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
- Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a…
- Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been…
- They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the…
- Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
- Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the…
- Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would…
- We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how…
- All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and…
- The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
- Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that…
- Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is…
- Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of…
- To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring,…
- The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist…
- Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.
- You should accordingly exercise your mind to remember your friends, relatives, and fellow-workers to determine if they are in need. As you remember each one…
- We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the scope of our prayer to…
More Prayer Quotes
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- 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
- 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
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that… — Arthur W. Pink
- 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
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila