Top 1200 God Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.

Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'

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.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

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

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power.

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

One of the most effective ways to pray is to ask God to give you a promise from his Word concerning whatever it is you're praying for. Then hold him to his Word as you pray it back to him. It's what has been called "reversed thunder." God keeps his Word, and basing our prayer on his Word gives our prayers strength and confidence because we know we're asking for something God wants to give us.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.