P Quotes
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“Prayer is like medicine. Pray three times per day: once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening.”
“Prayer is like money - it has no smell.”
Source: Piaf: a biography
“Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.”
“Prayer is like using a pick and shovel. The deeper you dig, the more you access unseen spaces.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“Prayer is like what fuel is to a car. It gives you the energy to be on the move.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.”
“Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.”
“Prayer is mans greatest power!”
“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”
“Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.”
“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”
“Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.”
“Prayer is more than words, it is pouring out your heart to Divine Helper in heaven.”
“Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.”
“Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.”
“Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.”
“Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.”
“Prayer is needed in tough times, and the Word is required to attain the best results.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.”
“Prayer is never complete until God has answered.”
“Prayer is never for purchase but practice.”
“Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.”
“Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.”
Source: The Soul of Prayer
“Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.”
Source: Ramanama
“Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.”
“Prayer is not a complicated process. It is a simple means of conversing with the Maker of Heaven and Earth.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.”
Source: TNTC Letters of John
“Prayer is not a court hearing, so when you pray do not aim to prove before God how others wronged you, because He knows every heart already.”
“Prayer is not a court hearing. So, when you pray, do not aim to prove to God how others have wronged you, because He knows every heart already.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.”
“Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.”
“Prayer is not a feeling. It's a power source, and those who tap into it get far more than a warm fuzzy. They get strength to move mountains.”
Source: Love and a Little White Lie
“Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.”
Source: The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life
“Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.”
“Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.”
“Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming to God for the fulfillment of His will, coming to a God who delights to answer prayer.”
“Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.”
“Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.”
“Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself”
“Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!”
“Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.”
“Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.”
“Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.”
“Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.”
Source: The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith