Quotes on prayer
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Garth Brooks Quotes
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
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Matthew Henry Quotes
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
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Richard J. Needham Quotes
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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Satchel Paige Quotes
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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E.M. Bounds Quotes
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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Philip Melanchthen Quotes
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Adam Clarke Quotes
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
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Gerald Vann Quotes
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
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B. Graham Dienert Quotes
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
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Samuel M. Shoemaker Quotes
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
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A.B. Simpson Quotes
Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him. You try too hard, friend. Drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way.
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Ever Garrison Quotes
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Herman Melville Quotes
Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.
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Noelani Day Quotes
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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William Inge Quotes
What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.
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Helga Bergold Gross Quotes
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
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William McGill Quotes
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Prayer is the coin paid to gratitude.
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Jessi Lane Adams Quotes
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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Socrates Quotes
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
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O. Hallesby Quotes
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
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Jane Wagner Quotes
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
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Margaret Gibb Quotes
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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Indian Proverb Quotes
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
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Diana Robinson Quotes
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
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Philip James Bailey Quotes
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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George Meredith Quotes
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
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Glade Byron Addams Quotes
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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Josephine Baker Quotes
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
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John Bunyan Quotes
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
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Stephen Crotts Quotes
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
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Guy H. King Quotes
If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.
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Author Unknown Quotes
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
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Mother Teresa Quotes