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If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.)
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.
The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.
To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.