Quotes About Prayer

There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.

Wesley declared, "Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it.7 In studiously avoiding the one, let us watch against the other. The much more prevalent error of our day is an easy indulgence which permits us to pamper the flesh when we should buffet it; to feast and enjoy ourselves when we ought to fast and to pray.

We have a few examples in Scripture of what we have called the absolute fast, that is, abstaining from drinking as well as eating. Normally this was never for more than three days

recognize prayer as a vital necessity.

It is significant that the Lord dealt with fasting as a spiritual exercise distinct from praying.

It needs to be stressed that fasting, whether regular or occasional, is a matter between the individual and God.

I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14).

God had to say: "Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high" (58:4). But that is clearly one thing that fasting is intended to do, for, describing the fast that He has chosen, God goes on to say, "Then you shall call and the Lord will answer" (58:9).

Fasting is designed to make prayer mount up as on eagles' wings. It is intended to usher the suppliant into the audience chamber of the King and to extend to him the golden sceptre. It may be expected to drive back the oppressing powers of darkness and loosen their hold on the prayer objective. It is calculated to give an edge to a man's intercessions and power to his petitions. Heaven is ready to bend its ear to listen when someone prays with fasting.

Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importunity into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven.

they fasted as well as wept before the Lord, and God gave them overwhelming victory (Judg. 20). What power with God to turn the tide has prayer accompanied by fasting!

The Believers come with their guns, their prayer beads and their own Destroy-Yourselves Manual.

He rows home -Thaiy thaiy thakka thaiy thaiy thome - thinking how wrong it is for a fisherman to believe that he knows his river well. No one knows the Meenachal. No one knows what it may snatch or suddenly yield. Or when. That is what makes the fisherman pray.

No matter how often I talk to God, he never tells me anything I didn't already know.

I might have never learned to cry if it weren't for my grandfather, Uncle Hob says. I might have never learned to cry. Which means I might never have known really what it is to pray or to laugh down deep in my belly or to tell you aunt Patty how much I love her.

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

O my Lord and Savior, in Your arms I am safe. Keep me and I have nothing to fear. . . . I know nothing about the future, but I rely upon You. I pray that You would give me what is good for me.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

The ways to find one's way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect, but that road is severe, particularly to people with electronic scheduling software and a lot of business lunches as part of the general requirements of their jobs, not to mention drinks after work, and pretty soon fasting, if not prayer, is out the window.

The more specific I am about the details I am concerned with as I pray, the better the results.

Susan never denied the existence of God. But her beliefs were secularized and lodged in the world around her. When she was once asked, "Do you pray?" she responded, "I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.

Nothing prayed for – it is life's strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.