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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PRAYERS 3
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
A.J. Gordon
When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
Angelina Grimke (1805-1879, American abolitionist, feminist)
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
Prayer is the sovereign remedy.
Robert Hall
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.
Robert Hall
The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.
Robert Hall
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
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As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.
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As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.
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Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.
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Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
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By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.
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Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore, whether you pray for big things or for little things, say to God, "If it will glorify Thy name, then grant my prayer and help me."
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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
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Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.
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Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
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Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart.... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.
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If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
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If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.
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If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.
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It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.
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It is necessary for us to withdraw at regular intervals and enable our souls to attain that quietude and inward composure which are essential if we would hear the voice of God.
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It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
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It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
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Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
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My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things.... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
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Nothing is so blessed as quiet, unbroken communication with our Lord. The sense of the Lord's nearness, which then fills our souls, is greater than any other peace, joy, inner satisfaction, or security which we have known.
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Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
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Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.
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Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.
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Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.
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Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.
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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
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Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
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See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
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The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
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The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities He has in which to speak to us seriously. In quietude and solitude before the face of God our souls can hear better than at any other time.
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The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.
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There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
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To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
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To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
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We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
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We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
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We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."
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When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.
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When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
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When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
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When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
Prayer is invoking the impossible.
Jack W. Hayford
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert (1593-1632, British metaphysical poet)
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674, British poet)
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972, Polish educator, author)
I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.
Eliza M. Hickok
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Etty Hillesum
Women don't have halos built in.
Lorraine Hine
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates (Ancient Greek physician)
Prayer is man's greatest means of trapping the infinite resources of God.
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972, American public servant)
Prayer is the voice of faith.
William Van Horne
All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.
Delma Jackson
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
Katherine Hulme
Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way.
Earl G. Hunt
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Ivan Illich (1926-, Austrian-born American theologian, author)
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Ivan Illich (1926-, Austrian-born American theologian, author)
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857, British humorist, playwright)
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973, American President (36th))
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
Adoniram Judson
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman satirical poet)
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman satirical poet)
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble (1792-1866, British Anglican clergyman, poet)
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
Edwin Keith
O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
E.W. Kenyon
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
Guy H. King
Woe to those who pray but are heedless in their prayer, who make a show of piety and give no alms to the destitute.
The Koran (c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible)
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
J.L. Kraft
If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it. But if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.
Isobel Kuhn
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
Walter A. Mueller
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers, and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
C.S. Lewis
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C.S. Lewis
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C.S. Lewis
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
C.S. Lewis
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
C.S. Lewis
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