P Quotes
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“Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!”
“Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.”
Source: The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse
“Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence”
“prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.”
“Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.”
“Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.”
Source: The Shadow of an Agony
“Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”
“Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82
“Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart.”
Source: All for Jesus: A Devotional
“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.”
“Prayer is our reliance on God and the lack of prayer shows our independence from God. "If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere. A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning." (Leonard Ravenhill)”
Source: Principles for the Gathering of Believers Under the Headship of Jesus Christ
“Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.”
“Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.”
“Prayer is perpetual rejuvenate force.”
“Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.”
“Prayer is powerful force.”
“Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.”
“Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.”
“Prayer is presenting your case before God, the righteous Judge whose wheel of justice is Supreme and able to Redeem.”
Source: Productive Parenting: 365 Insights
“Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.”
“Prayer is reaching out to God’s hand so that you can understand His heart and plans for your life.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is reaching out to God so you can understand His heart and plans for your life.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.”
“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.”
“Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray is to grow in grace. To tarry in the presence of the King leads to new loyalty and devotion on the part of the faithful subjects. Christian character grows in the secret-place of prayer.”
“Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.”
Source: Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character
“Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.”
Source: Prayer: A Holy Occupation
“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“Prayer is simply a vertical conversation with the powers that be, rather than a horizontal conversation with other people.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."”
“Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.”
“Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.”
“Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.”
“Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.”
Source: The Headship of Christ: And, The Rights of the Christian People : a Collection of Essays, Historical and Descriptive Sketches, and Personal Portraitures with the Author's Celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham
“Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.”
Source: Prayer
“Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.”
“Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.”
Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World
“Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.”
“Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.”
“Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.”
“Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul.”