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October 10, 2012 by kevinstilley

Prayer – select quotes

When prayer has become secondary, or incidental, it has lost its power. Those who are conspicuously men of prayer are those who use prayer as they use food, or air, or light, or money.
~ M.E. Andross

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
~ Mary Austin

Prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence.
~ W. S. Bowd

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
~ Phillips Brooks

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
~ Frederick Douglass

The true spirit of prayer is no other than God’s own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer.
~ Jonathan Edwards

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has promised mountains.
~ Vance Havner

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
~ William Ralph Inge

There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.
~ Thomas Kelly, in A Testament of Devotion

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
~ Guy H. King

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
~ Brother Lawrence

As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
~ Martin Luther

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
~ Andrew Murray

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
~ Austin O’Malley

Pray, but when you pray, move to your feet.
~ African proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
~ Indian proverb

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word — prayer.
~ Charles Spurgeon

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Many have found the secret of which I speak and, without giving much thought to what is going on within them, constantly practice this habit of inwardly gazing upon God. They know that something inside their hearts sees God. Even when they are compelled to withdraw their conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within them a secret communion always going on. Let their attention but be released for a moment from necessary business and it flies at once to God again. This has been the testimony of many Christians, so many that even as I state it thus I have a feeling that I am quoting, though from whom or from how many I cannot possibly know.
~ A.W. Tozer

When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.
~ Jane Wagner

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.
~ Author unknown

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