Prayer
120 quotes: 9 by Keith Craft, 111 from other voices.
Other voices on Prayer
- Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
- Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold upon God's willingness.Phillips BrooksCommonly attributed
- Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness.
- Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of Omnipotence.Martin Farquhar TupperCommonly attributed
- Prayer puts pressing problems into proper perspective.
- Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
- Prayer turns theology into experience.Timothy KellerCommonly attributed
- Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- Prayer without watching is hypocrisy; and watching without prayer is presumption.
- Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, must be prayed for.
- Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
- The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
- The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.Timothy KellerCommonly attributed
- The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
- The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- The habit of prayer is good, but the spirit of prayer is better.Charles H. SpurgeonSourced
- The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
- To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
- To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
- True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
- True prayer never comes weeping home: I am sure that I shall get either what I ask, or what I ought to have asked.
- Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
- We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
- We live shabbily because we pray meanly.
- We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Oswald ChambersCommonly attributed
- We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
- We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
- What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.E. M. BoundsSourced
- What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
- Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
- When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
- When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
- When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
- Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- With the prayer of faith we can do anything.
- Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.
- The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.