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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PRAYERS 2
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917, Scottish preacher, author)
In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.
Jane Frances De Chantal
With God there is no need for long speeches.
Jane Frances De Chantal
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Stephen Charnock
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400, British poet)
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (1898-2003, Wife of Chinese revolutionary leader Chiang Kai-Shek)
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn (1941-, Anglo-Irish journalist)
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen (1934-, Canadian-born American musician, songwriter, singer)
He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher)
When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
Russel H. Conwell (1843-1925, American lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer)
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
Richard Crashaw
Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.
V.L. Crawford
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.
Stephen Crotts
Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.
William Culbertson
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822-1909, American pastor, author)
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822-1909, American pastor, author)
All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
Jeremiah A. Denton
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
B. Graham Dienert
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881, Russian novelist)
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says, "I care."
Dick Eastman
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
Dick Eastman
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
The very best and utmost of attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in thee.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910, American founder of the Christian Science Church)
True prayer always receives what it asks for -- or something better.
Bryon Edwards
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758, British theologian, metaphysician)
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, American President (34th))
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
Matthew Henry
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal time.
Matthew Henry
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Matthew Henry
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.
Matthew Henry
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Philip Henry
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Philip Henry
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer to a pregnant woman]
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch humanist)
For prayer is not a ritual; it is the soul's inherent response to a relationship with a loving Father.
Colleen Townsend Evans
The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.
Colleen Townsend Evans
Dealing in generalities is the death of the prayer.
J.H. Evans
Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.
The Desert Fathers
Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you, but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion, and thankful in prayer.
The Desert Fathers
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
Charles G. Finney
The essence of prayer, even of a mystical experience, is the way we are ! altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.
Matthew Fol
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)
Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.
Robert D. Foster
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
Brendan Francis
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
Shakti Gawain (American human potential teacher)
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
Edmund Gibson
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