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Quotes About Faith

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
~ Francois Fenelon
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
~ Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
~ Wess Stafford
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
~ Malcolm Boyd
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
~ E. M. Bounds
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
~ William Jenkyn
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
~ Charles Brent
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
~ Victor Hugo
Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.
~ Jackson Browne
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.
~ Mark Batterson
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
~ Mark Batterson
Prayer is an effort of will.
~ Oswald Chambers
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
~ John Piper
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
~ Harold George Koenig
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.
~ Francois Fenelon
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
~ Dana Carvey
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
~ Vavasor Powell
I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.
~ Etty Hillesum
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
~ Oswald Chambers
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
~ Bill Hybels
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
~ Thomas Brooks