Prayer
120 quotes: 9 by Keith Craft, 111 from other voices.
Other voices on Prayer
- I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
- I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything.
- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
- I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
- If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
- If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever.
- If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'Thank You,' that would suffice.
- If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.
- If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled.
- In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.John BunyanCommonly attributed
- In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
- Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?Corrie ten BoomSourced
- It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
- It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
- It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
- It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
- Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
- Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thoughts into the bosom of God. The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
- Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of.
- Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer.
- Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.
- One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
- Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet.
- Perils pale in the presence of prayer.
- Practise in life whatever you pray for, and God will give it to you more abundantly.
- Pray, and let God worry.
- Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
- Pray for your friends. Everybody going through something they don’t talk about.
- Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
- Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
- Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
- Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.
- Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Prayer is a joy and a privilege, available to all of God's children. The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.