Prayers Quotes

979 quotes by 674 authors

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count… — 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
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness… — Edward McKendree Bounds
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers. — J C Ryle
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart. — J C Ryle
The best prayers have often more groans than words. — John Bunyan
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. — John Calvin
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor. — Matthew Henry
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows… — Oswald Chambers
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it… — Oswald Chambers
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our… — Oswald Chambers
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the… — Oswald Chambers
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. — Stephen Charnock
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are… — Thomas Brooks
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may… — Thomas Brooks
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are… — Thomas Brooks
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… — Watchman Nee

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