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Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters

“When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.”

Jesus Names Heaven Praying Authority

Author:Eric Ludy

“Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.”

Might Pain Grace Sacrifice Bears Praying Offers Benefits Praise Cease Devotion I Pray

Book:A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

Source: A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty

“How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.”

Moving Prayer Focus Praying Mountain Filled Size Obedience Shifting Sufficiency

Book:Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray

Source: Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray

“How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.”

Men Heart Beautiful Stars Brain Study Creation Praying Rose Creator Senses I Pray

Book:Samarkand

Source: Samarkand

“People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.”

People Different Ends Walks Praying Determine One Direction Different Directions

Author:Andy Stanley

“Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.”

Desire Prayer Praying Burden Change God

Author:LeCrae

“So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence”

World Should Mean Doe Real Earth Political Order Jesus Heaven Social Prayer Acting Existence Praying Kingdoms Real World Excluded Kingdom Come

Author:Dallas Willard

“Pray for rain while digging a well.”

Wells Praying Rain Digging

Author:Stephen King

“Just pray and God gone make a way”

Way Gone Praying

Author:Webbie

“Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.”

Thinking Knows Humans Human Beings Perfect Five Praying Islam I Pray Pillars

Author:Sania Mirza

“In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.”

Men Kind Prayer He Man Praying Substitutes

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.”

Purpose Prayer Plans Praying Glory Concern Bounds

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.”

Men Government Earth Heaven Praying Tasks Agents Representatives

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!”

Trying Causes Church Taken Modern Praying Anxiety Paid Deny Testament Emphasis New Testament Setups

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.”

“Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking to God, they would call Bellevue. But, take away the hair dryer, it's just praying.'”

Ifs Made Said Talking Hair Praying Analogies Dryers Hair Dryers

Author:Bill Maher

“When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.”

Lord Saws Praying Instant Our Lord

Author:Mary Potter

“I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour..... I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying.”

Feels Believe Has Beens Soul Helping Lasts I Believe Hours Prayer Dying Praying Perpetual

Author:Mary Potter

“To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”

Mind Desire Purpose Names Christ Praying

Author:Samuel Chadwick

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

Humans God Asks Prayer Animal Praying Craving Human Animal

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."”

Inspirational Believe Said Eye Like You Praying Affectionate

Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

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“I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.”

Thinking Persons Wanted Jobs Leader Study Praying Safe Submit Pope Submission Great Leader Thrust Administrative

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.”

Joy Praying

Author:Sammy Cahn

“The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.”