Prayer Quotes - Page 21

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.

Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt not,” now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, “You will.

Archangel Zadkiel, help me to remove, clear and replace old patterns that no longer serve me. And so it is, amen.

Negative prophecies are reversible. The Lord reveals to conquer. You are created to reverse any negative with your prayers and the word of God.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

It was more than a string of letters put togetherit was a thick cloak in the coldand a strong defense against an enemyIt was more than the naked heart on paperit was a way to undress sadness … and sinsand an olive branch for the desperateWriting was her prayer and the words were felt.

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

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

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

Never underestimate the power of kindness. It is very contagious. A person whose heart is saddened by the troubles of this world, the loss of a friend or family member, a hard days work, or the struggle of provision can experience joy through a simple act of kindness. Romans 12: 10-12, Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another, not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continually steadfastly in prayer.

You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.

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

Men of God are always men of prayer.

God’s manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

Delivering everyday greatness, or not, is up to you.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

Do not pray by heart but with the heart.

Prayer is heart to heart talk with the Creator.

It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

Depression is the feeling that everythingis a waste of time.Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this as well as in all other trades makes perfect.

Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.

There is no prayer greater than service.

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

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Saying a prayer can be as simple as thinking positive thoughts about someone—it’s not an act that needs to be tied to any particular religion or system of beliefs. I can say a prayer just by saying “I wish you peace” after someone becomes angry with me for something trivial; I can say a prayer for the woman who is always cheerful (or gloomy) at the store where I shop by thinking “I wish you all the best in life—good health, good relationships, and all of your true needs fulfilled.” Of course, if you want to pray to God in the form in which you conceive of God, that’s fine, too—and your prayer will not be wasted. Think about it. Is the world a better place when you walk away from someone either forgetting them immediately or thinking negative thoughts about them? This world of ours can use all the positive thoughts we can contribute to it, and our simple and heartfelt prayers are some of the most positive thoughts we can create and share. And they affect us as much as, if not more than, they affect the objects of our prayers.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Fight your battles through prayer,And win your battles through faith.

We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.

Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

If we need help, we must cry to the Most High God.

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

The only way to pray is to pray and the way to pray well is to pray much.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

Prayer and fasting is what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you while fasting humbles you to be a better child of God.

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly too without a single stutter. Later he explained "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Self-care is how you take your power back.

God created you for a special purpose.

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.

The Lord cared for us in the wilderness. May we never forget Him in times of abundance.