Call To Prayer Quotes

#1. This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

Barack Obama

#3. Soon there would be the evening call to prayer and all over Zinder people would be thanking Allah for the gift of one more day, of one more moment in which to live and breathe.

Kathleen Hill

#4. The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

Barack Obama

#5. A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.

James S.A. Corey

#6. We are not called to pray independently, by our merits. If we were expected to do so, there would be reason for anxiety and despair. But the call to prayer, by God's grace, is to pray in dependency on the Holy Spirit.

James W. Beeke

#7. Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

John Updike

#8. Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

Isabella Bird

#9. Disciples like Peter, Andrew, James, and John show us that the call to follow Jesus is not simply an invitation to pray a prayer; it is a summons to lose our lives.

David Platt

#10. Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

Grant Von Harrison

#11. Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic - I'm sure you remember it - when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.

Pat Rodegast

#12. We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#14. To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

John Owen

#15. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

John Piper

#16. All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray.

Watchman Nee

#17. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

Ravi Zacharias

#18. You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

Doreen Virtue

#19. I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

Valerie June

#20. See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

Jared Brock

#21. I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

Alice McDermott

#22. God wants us to call unto Him in prayer because his ear is not deaf to hear our cry.

Euginia Herlihy

#23. If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

Ole Hallesby

#24. Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

David Bryant

#25. The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.

John Shelby Spong

#26. Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. 6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.

Anonymous

#27. 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.

Mary Potter

#28. Your call has a
time frame,a price to pay,urgency of attention.
Your call has a purpose, a pursuit, vision, commission,
honors and even excellency. So what are u called to

Ikechukwu Joseph

#29. Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

Winkie Pratney

#30. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#31. If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

Mother Teresa

#32. To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.

J.R. Rim

#33. To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

Marianne Williamson

#34. When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright ...

Brigham Young

#35. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

Mother Teresa

#36. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Steve Goodier

#37. For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish.

Kevin Hearne

#38. When your heart is heavy and your spirit in distress,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, and sense his sweet caress.
He answers when we call him, our every prayer he hears,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, for he is always near.

Diane Goold

#39. Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew.

Sarah Winman

#40. It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

Tony Campolo

#41. Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

Jonathan Falwell

#42. We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

Paul Washer

#43. Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

Andrew Pyper

#44. Through personal prayer, through family prayer, by trusting in God with faith, nothing wavering, we can call down to our rescue His mighty power.

Thomas S. Monson

#45. When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

Lily Tomlin

#46. 1Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. 2From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than

Anonymous

#47. Prayer is rather the activity that enables each of us to be givers to and receivers from one another of the deepest meaning of life - a meaning I call God.

John Shelby Spong

#48. However, there is also a ministry called the prayer closet. Humble servants, burdened with the cares of others, intercede on their behalf. This service offered up by uncelebrated prayer warriors is a mighty weapon. They call upon the power of God to thwart the schemes of the evil one.

Cheryl Zelenka

#49. Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call prayer, or whether it be the action that follows, leads sooner or later to a new demand on personal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amy Carmichael

#50. A triune God would call us to converse with him ... because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Timothy Keller

#51. Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

Sara Maitland

#52. In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

Tara Brach

#53. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14

Wanda L. Scott

#54. But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death's cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master -
The Call to new Heights.

Jessica Coupe

#55. Vocal prayer ... must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.

Teresa Of Avila