Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on prayers 5 by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PRAYERS 5

Just when I need Him, He is my all, Answering when upon Him I call; Tenderly watching lest I should fall.

William Poole

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

Vavasor Powell

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Hugh Prather

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first.

Arabic Proverb

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)

Pray once if you are going to fight, pray twice if you are going to sail, and pray thrice if you are going to get married.

Polish Proverb (Sayings of Polish origin)

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish origin)

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)

If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Lyell Rader

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

Alan Redpath

The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.

George E. Rees

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Paul S. Rees

Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.

Dean Register

Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

The prayers of the Christian are secret, but their effect cannot be hidden.

Howard Chandler Robbins

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Diana Robinson

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Dame Flora Robson

A Chinese Christian prayed every day... "Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Richard Sibbes

I seldom made an errand to God for . another but I got something for myself.

Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661, Scottish pastor)

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

J.C. Ryle

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

J.C. Ryle

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

J.C. Ryle

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Meiling Soong

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226, Italian preacher, founder of The Franciscan Orde)

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

John Selden (1584-1654, British jurist, statesman)

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly.

Nyogen Senzakill

Bow, stubborn knees!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

Prayer is the heavenly telephone that brings the distant near, till heaven to earth comes down.

A. B. Simpson

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

A. B. Simpson

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Archbishop Francis J. Spellman

Because God is the living God, he can hear; because he is a loving God, he will hear; because he is our covenant God, he has bound himself to hear.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

We must hear Jesus speak if we expect him to hear us speak.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

Prayer is a groan.

St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

St. John of the Cross (1542-1591, Spanish Christian mystic and poet)

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Rudolph Steiner

Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.

George David Stewart

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

St. Bridget of Sweden

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)

Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Neil C. Strait

O Lord, let me not live to be useless!

Bishop John de Stratford

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

The man who asks mercy for another while both are in peril will be answered first.

The Talmud (BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish archive of oral tradition)

Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.

Hudson J. Taylor

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.