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  • Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

    Prayer   Gossip   Praying  
  • Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation
  • The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

    Prayer   Heart   Answers  
    Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.350
  • O, do not pray for easy lives.

    Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”
  • God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

    Prayer   Answers   Wiser  
  • Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you 'my beloved daughter,' 'my beloved son,' 'my beloved child.' To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being.

  • It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

    Prayer   Practice   May  
    Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.391
  • God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

    Prayer   Order   Giving  
    Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”
  • The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

    Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL
  • Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

    Teacher   Sick   Long  
  • One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

  • Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

    Prayer   Reading   Law  
    Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK
  • True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

    Prayer   Father   Heart  
    Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com
  • Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

    Prayer   Might   Reason  
  • The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

    Prayer   Silence   Secret  
    Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.159, Paulist Press
  • When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  • Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

    "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.
  • Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

    "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.
  • I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

    Prayer   Able   Hours  
  • When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  • Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  • You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.

    Prayer   May   Praying  
  • God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

    Prayer   Giving   Mind  
  • Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

    Spiritual   Prayer   Men  
    'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12
  • Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

    Prayer   Perfect   Wish  
    Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369
  • Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

    John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526
  • Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.
  • Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

    Prayer   Moments   Form  
  • You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

    Prayer   Sacrifice   Soul  
  • Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

    Prayer   Doe   Fit  
    Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House
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