All Quotes By Tag: Prayer

“We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy.”

“The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.”

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

“In the morning, lift my hands towards the heavens. And surrender my heart in prayer to the Most High God.”

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination sipmly ends up leading. We assume that it is only the monk, nun or priest who has a special call, while the married woman, for instance, has merely been passed by. […] But we must not allow ourselves to approach it merely in these terms. Instead, every one of us should, indeed must, treat lay life as a calling just the way we think of monasticism and ordination. We must sit down with ourselves and with God in prayer to discern if life in the world really is what we are meant for, and if we discover that it is, we must reat this call with the same seriousness with which we would treat a call to a hermit’s life in the desert. We are not lay people simply because we happen not to be monks or priests. We are lay people because God wills that we lead a life weeking our salvation through the world.”

“That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against….We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.”

“Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.”

“Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievement—a breakthrough accomplished by those who pushed themselves beyond what was thought possible while holding a belief in a better life. Get up off your knees, and roll up your sleeves.”

“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”

“With prayer, we shall keep our heart pure.”

“For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to ask whatever may come to their minds; but he has at the same time prescribed to them a law according to which they are to pray. And doubtless nothing is better for us than this restriction; for if it was allowed to every one of us to ask what he pleased, and if God were to indulge us in our wishes, it would be to provide very badly for us. For what may be expedient we know not; nay, we boil over with corrupt and hurtful desires. But God supplies a twofold remedy, lest we should pray otherwise than according to what his own will has prescribed; for he teaches us by his word what he would have us to ask, and he has also set over us his Spirit as our guide and ruler, to restrain our feelings, so as not to suffer them to wander beyond due bounds. For what or how to pray, we know not, says Paul, but the Spirit helpeth our infirmity, and excites in us unutterable groans. (Romans 8:26.) We ought also to ask the mouth of the Lord to direct and guide our prayers; for God in his promises has fixed for us, as it has been said, the right way of praying.”

“The philosophy of Jesus Christ is the power of prayer.”

“Our Father in heaven” — I am a child away from home.”Your name be honored as holy”–I am a worshiper.”Your kingdom come”–I am a subject.”Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”–I am a servant.”Give us today our daily bread”–I am a beggar.”And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors”–I am a sinner.”And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one”–I am a sinner in danger of being a still greater sinner.”

“I bow down on my knees. And prayed; God help me! This was the moment of grace.”

“471. The earth is working not because of you or your prayers but because of God’s integrity and faithfulness in Himself”