Have been going through some Christian materials of a book called “Give Me 40 Days”.
Though I’ve not completed the process, the prayer quotes within inspires me to pray more.
Prayer is such an overlooked ‘activity’ yet when you’ve no where else to turn…. what does one do? Pray of coz.
Ah, the powers above, the Guy upstairs, God…
All of these quotes are by famous people such as Martin Luthur King, C.S. Lewis and such talks or prays so much that these quotes seem to be their core values.
So here goes. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
• The first purpose of the prayer is to move the pray-er.
• I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
• Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
• Satan trembles when e sees the weakest saint upon his knees.
• Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.
• When am I trying to get God to do that I should be doing myself? Restore a relationship? Resolve a problem at work? Choose my career? What will I take responsibility for today?
• When life knocks you to your knees – well, that’s the best position in which to pray, isn’t it?
• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
• Lord, help me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way, That even when I kneel to pray, My prayer shall be for others.
• Every time we pray, our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.
• Don’t expect a thousand-dollar answer to a ten-cent prayer.
• If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about.
• Prayer is not only “the practice of the presence of God,” it is the realization of His presence.
• To pray is the greatest thing we can do, and to do it well, there must be calmness, time and deliberation.
• If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear Him when He speaks.
• 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.
• Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.
• The penalty of not praying is the loss of one’s capacity to pray.
• Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctancy; it is laying hold of His highest willingness.
• If we are honest, we must admit that much of our time is spent pretending. But when we turn to God in prayer, we must present our real selves, candidly acknowledging our strengths and weaknesses and our total dependence on Him.
• Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
• Prayer is not a means by which we get something for ourselves, but rather a method of helping God get something for Himself.
• Prayer is not learned by rote; it is experienced. Just talk and listen. It’s no more difficult than that.
• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
• Promises are given, not to supercede, but to quicken and encourage prayer.
• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church. It is a goodly Christian weapon.
• Prayer moves the arm, which moves the world, and brings salvation down.
• Prayer is not a monologue, but a dialogue; God’s voice in response to mine is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
• From morning to night we should think to be too long to be without meat; yet who thinks it is too long to be without prayer?
• As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
• Do you know what is wrong with the world today? There is too much theologian and not enough kneeologian.
• What answers to prayer have I been unable to see because I am not in close enough communions with God?
• We honor God when we ask for great things. It is a humiliating thing to think that we are satisfied with very small results.
• I have often learned more in a one prayer than I have been able to glean from much reading and reflection.
• Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.
• 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!
• Don’t allow yourself to be burdened by any one form of prayer. Don’t tie yourself to repetition or set form. Simply engage in conversation with the One who adores you unconditionally.
• Praying in tongues is the God within me speaking to Himself, allowing me to participate in Heavenly transactions. What an honor!
• He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
• Prayer is, More Important!
