Showing posts with label famous quotes on prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famous quotes on prayer. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Quotes and a Verse on Prayer...



Quotes and a Verse on Prayer
(Part 2)

"Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and
a thankful heart."
- Colossians 4:2
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to
have a heart without words than words without a heart."
- Mahatma Ghandi
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"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."
- Fredrik Wisloff
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"The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us,
but that we will hear Him."
- William McGill
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God,
not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.
Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think."
- Andrew Murray
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"Rich is the person who has a praying friend."
- Janice Hughes
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"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself."
- Georges Bernanos
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"Even if we speak with a low voice,
even if we whisper without opening the lips,
even if we call to Him only from the depths of the heart,
our unspoken word always reaches God
and God always hears."
- St. Clement of Alexandria
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"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message,
oppose our arguments, despise our persons;
but they are helpless against our prayers."
- J. Sidlow Baxter
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"If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual,
take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person.
Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne."
- Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
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"Pray, and let God worry."
- Martin Luther
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"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."
- Allen Vartlett
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"Give me, good Lord, a longing to be with You."
- St. Thomas Moore


Sunday, October 19, 2008

Quotes and Verses on Prayer...

Quotes and Verses on Prayer

"For You, O Lord,
are good and forgiving, abounding in
steadfast love to all who call upon You."
- Psalm 86:5,7

"So be not like them; because Your Father
has knowledge of your needs even before
you make your requests to Him."
- Matthew 6:8

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle
amusement. Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"I have found the greatest power in the
world is the power of prayer."
- Cecil B. DeMille

"There is a general kind of praying which
fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment
of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere.
Possibly somebody would be killed, but the
majority of the enemy would be missed.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Give me, good Lord, a longing
to be with You."
- St. Thomas Moore

"If we truly love people, we will desire for
them far more than it is within our power to
give them, and this will lead us to prayer:
Intercession is a way of loving others.
- Richard J. Foster

"Even if we speak with
a low voice, even if we whisper
without opening the lips, even if we call
to Him only from the depths of the heart,
our unspoken word always reaches
God and God always hears."
- St. Clement of Alexandria

"If you are having difficulty
loving or relating to an individual,
take him to God. Bother the Lord with
this person. Don't you be bothered with him -
leave him at the throne."
- Charles (Chuck) Swindoll

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance,
but laying hold of His willingness."
- Martin Luther


Do you have a favorite quote or verse? Which one?
If you would like to email me a favorite quote
verse, or joke or put it in the comments section
that would be super! Please give credit to author,
when you are able to.
Happy Sunday Val =)