A Quote by Matthew Henry

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Matthew Henry

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Bring Forth Helps Mercy Midwife Prayer

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Matthew Henry
English - Priest
October 18, 1662 - June 22, 1714

If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.

Anne Lamott

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Ram Dass

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

Silouan the Athonite

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

William Shakespeare

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Unknown

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

Angus Deaton

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Charles Spurgeon

The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for failing to bring forth fruit, so too are we accountable for the fruits we bring forth.

Eric D. Huntsman

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Pope Francis

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Stephen Spender

It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the cashier in the supermarket, getting mad because he or she doesn't hurry, say a little prayer: 'Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' Take that prayer with you wherever you go.

Henri Nouwen

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Saint Ambrose

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!