P Quotes
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“Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.”
“PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.”
“Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.”
“Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.”
Source: With Christ in the School of Prayer
“Prayer accompanied by required action, can easily be take as negating and conflicting but in real essence potentiate and capacitate each other. Prayer has to be accompanied by practical actions to make faith alive and reality.”
“Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.”
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“Prayer ain't weakened by distance.”
Source: The Day of Small Things
“Prayer allows God to transform your life, touch lives and shine bright.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer allows us to wait without worry.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God
“Prayer allows you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.”
Source: Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
“Prayer alone is not enough; you also need to have Faith in God. He whom you are praying will act on what you are praying for.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.”
“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.”
Source: The Evangelization of the World in this Generation
“Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts.”
Source: Voyage to Happiness!
“Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.”
“Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Prayer and art are passionate acts of will. One wants to transcend and enhance the will's normal possibilities. Art like prayer is a hand outstretched in the darkness, seeking for some touch of grace which will transform it into a hand that bestows gifts. prayer means casting oneself into the miraculous rainbow that stretches between becoming and dying, to be utterly consumed in it, in order to bring its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence”
“Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.”
“Prayer and encouraging words change things. We're all human. We all go through stuff. The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage. That's the worst. Imagine going through a scandal, or a divorce, or a death in the family, and running into fans on the street. Because of where my heart is, my instinct is to put my sadness aside, and give them a smile or a hug, no matter how bad I'm feeling. And the appreciation of fans can refuel your spiritual tank in those situations. But until you're famous, people don't realize how difficult that is.”
“Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith.”
“Prayer and fasting are what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you, while fasting humbles you to be a better child of God.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer and fasting detoxifies your inner man so you can be free from anything that detaches you from God.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer and fasting is a vital process. It can unlock the storeroom of blessings. It helps you stay focused on the prize and strengthen you to work hard. A lot can be achieved through prayer and fasting because when God is in the picture, the future is bright.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.”
“Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.”
Source: Prayer
“Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!”
“Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.”
“Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.”
“Prayer and Meditation
Matthew 14
AND HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN APART TO PRAY
This was always the practice of Jesus when he would move into the masses, the crowd, afterwards he would go alone into deep prayer and meditation.
Why did he do this? If you have been meditating, you will understand. You will understand that once you start meditating, a very fragile and delicate quality of consciousness is born in you.
A flower of the unknown, of the beyond, starts opening, which is delicate.
And whenever you move into the crowd, you lose something. Whenever you come back from the crowd, you come back lesser than you had gone. Something has been lost, some contact has been lost. The crowd pulls you down, it has a gravitation of it's own.
You may not feel it if you live on the same plane of consciousness. Then there is no problem, then you have nothing to lose.
In fact, when you live in the crowd, on the same plane, alone you feel very uneasy. When you are with people, you feel good and happy. But alone, you feel sad, your aloneness is not aloneness. It is loneliness, you miss the other.
You do not find yourself in the aloneness, you simply miss the other.
When you are alone, you are not alone, beacuse you are not there.
Only the desire to be with others is there - that is what loneliness is. Always remember the distinction between aloneness and loneliness.
Aloneness is a peak experience - loneliness is a valley.
Aloneness has light in it, loneliness is dark.
Loneliness is when you desire others; aloneness is when you enjoy yourself.
When Jesus would move into the masses, into the crowd, he would tell his disciples to got to the other shore of the lake, and he would move into total aloneness. Not even the disciples were allowed to be with him. This was a constant practice with him.
Whenever you go into the crowd, you are infected by it.
You need a higher altitude to purify yourself, you need to be alone so that you can become fresh again. You need to be alone with yourself, so that you become together again. You need to be alone, so that you become centered and rooted in yourself again.
Whenever you move with others, they push you off centre.
AND WHEN THE EVENING WAS COME, HE WAS THERE ALONE
Nothing is said about his prayer in the Bible, just the word "prayer".
Before God or before existence, you simply need to be vulnerable - that is prayer.
You are no to say something.
So when you go into prayer, don't start saying something.
It will all be desires, demands and deep complaints to God.
And prayer with complaints is no prayer, a prayer with deep gratitude is prayer.
There is no need to say something, you can just be silent.
Hence nothing is said about what Jesus did in his aloneness. It simply says "apart to pray".
He went apart, he became alone.
That is what prayer is, to be alone, where the other is not felt, where the other is not standing between you and existence.
When God's breeze can pass througn you, unhindered.
It is a cleansing experience. It revejunates your spirit.
To be with God simply means to be alone.
You can miss the point, if you start thinking about God, then you are not alone.
If you start talking to God, then in imagination you have created the other.
And then you God is a projection, it will be a projection of your father.
A prayer is not to say something. It is to be silent, open, available.
And there is no need to believe in God, because that too is a projection.
The only need is to be alone, to be capable of being alone - and immediately you are with God.
Whenever you are alone, you are with God.”
Source: The Way, the Truth and the Life: On Jesus Christ, the Man, the Mystic and the Rebel
“Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937
“Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.”
“Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire.”
“Prayer and warfare are two separate and distinct activities. Prayer is toward God and warfare is toward the enemy.”
Source: Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance
“Prayer ardent opens heaven.”
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.”
“Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.”
“Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.”
Source: A Body of Divinity
“Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.”
Source: Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.”
“Prayer beautifies you”
“Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.”
“Prayer before Birth
I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.
I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.
I am not yet born; provide me
With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk
to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light
in the back of my mind to guide me.
I am not yet born; forgive me
For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words
when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,
my treason engendered by traitors beyond me,
my life when they murder by means of my
hands, my death when they live me.
I am not yet born; rehearse me
In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when
old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains
frown at me, lovers laugh at me, the white
waves call me to folly and the desert calls
me to doom and the beggar refuses
my gift and my children curse me.
I am not yet born; O hear me,
Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God
come near me.
I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing, and against all those
who would dissipate my entirety, would
blow me like thistledown hither and
thither or hither and thither
like water held in the
hands would spill me.
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.
Otherwise kill me.”
“Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”
“Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.”
“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.”
“Prayer begins where our power ends.”
“Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”
“Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.”
“Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.”