 The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Author: Augustine |
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Benjamin Franklin Author: Assorted Authors |
| If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. Author: Billy Sunday |
| Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words. Author: D.L. Moody |
| Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me. Author: D.L. Moody |
| I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. Author: D.L. Moody |
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| If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer. Author: D.L. Moody |
| The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God. Author: Jim Elliot |
| It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. Author: C.S. Lewis |
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
- Brother Lawrence Author: Assorted Authors |
