Quotes About Prayer

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.

6But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

There are as many great reasons to regularly pray to God as there are to live and breathe and stay alive.

20Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang. "Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years." "No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

the derivative of experience." When toward the end of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health Eddy writes, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," one senses that her words were rooted in her life.

Un arquitecto distante está muy lejos de ser un Dios personal que está allí cuidándonos y poniéndonos a prueba día a día; no es alguien a quien rezar, o a quien intentar agradar, o a cuya ira temer.

In his anguish, he prayed to God to restore his sight, and swore that if he was made able to see again he would only work with His creation and not with man's creation, for the rest of his life. After a few days his sight was restored and he kept his promise. He became a modern "wanderer", walking across America and inspiring a whole movement dedicated to the preservation of natural wilderness. As he himself said of these travels: "Going out, I discovered that I was really going in.

There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

We seem especially susceptible to this pitting of spirituality against theology in American evangelical contexts. Perhaps we can chalk this up to the influence of pietism, which courses through the veins of many evangelicals. Pietism should not be confused with piety. Piety means simply the spiritual practices of praying, Bible reading and meditation, fasting, and gifts of charity.

A congregation that does not pray for the ministry of its pastor," Bonhoeffer warns, "is no longer a congregation."11 He then adds, "A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is no longer a pastor."12

Howard Taylor wrote of his father, "For forty years the sun never rose on China a single day that God didn't find him on his knees.

Every generation needs courageous believers who will trust God at His Word and pick up the baton of intercession, continuing the powerful legacy of faithfully standing in the gap and seeking His heart in prayer.

No church program, religious event, political effort, or humanitarian cause can trump the awesome power of what God can do in response to the prayers of His people.

Prayer is privileged access to the God of the universe, bought and paid for by the blood of His Son on our account for all those who freely receive Him as Lord.

If we were to press the pause button, repent, and move prayer to a place of priority in our families, schedules, and church lives, everything would be ignited and impacted by it.