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Quotes About Persistence

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
~ Dwight L. Moody
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
~ George Balanchine
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for.
~ Drake
Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.
~ David Oyedepo
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
~ William Carey
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
~ Saint Augustine
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
~ Adoniram Judson
History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.
~ Walter Wink
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
~ Francis of Assisi
Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.
~ Edgar Cayce
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.
~ Nicky Gumbel
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
~ Adoniram Judson
There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.
~ Paul Washer
Surely revival delays because prayer decays.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.
~ Karen Wheaton
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer succeeds when all else fails
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
~ Voltaire
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
~ Saint Augustine