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Prayer Quotes - Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can

  Prayer Quotes - Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can   “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.” ― John Bunyan   “Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.” ― Germany Kent   “Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.” ― Martyn Lloyd-Jones   “Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.” ― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity   “If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry.” ― Karen Witemeyer, Short-Straw Bride   “What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of pra...

Prayer Quotes - Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused

  Prayer Quotes - Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused   “Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.” ― Elizabeth George   “The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.” ― Charles H. Spurgeon   “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.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana   “Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.” ― C.H. Spurgeon   “Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss: ~ God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in my eyes and in my looking. God be in my mouth and in my speaking. God be in my tongue and in my tasting. God be in my lips and in my greeting. ~ God be in my ...

Prayer Quotes - No one can believe how powerful prayer is

  Prayer Quotes - No one can believe how powerful prayer is   “Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh, I know that. It's old hat."   And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart.   Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you?” ― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel   “When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.” ― Philip Ya...

Prayer Quotes - The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer

  Prayer Quotes - The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer   “Go where your best prayers take you.” ― Frederick Buechner   “I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” ― Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass   “For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo   “Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.” ― Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace ...

Prayer Quotes - Why do you pray?

  Prayer Quotes - Why do you pray?   “And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.   I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing, I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire— See in my quiet places, wishes thronging— Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.” ― Amy Carmichael   “Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.” ― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind   “I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.” ― Quentin Crisp   “Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help an...