Importunate Prayer Quotes

#1. God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Adoniram Judson

#2. Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard Of Saint Victor

#3. We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

#5. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

Brad Pitt

#6. It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Henry Rollins

#7. The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

Matthew Henry

#8. Gender is like a Rubik's Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

Sam Killermann

#9. I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

Shay Mitchell

#10. Why take the risk? Surely somebody would invent a crystal ball to tell you whether or not a relationship would work out before it started.

Melissa Kantor

#11. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#12. This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four.

Lois Lowry

#13. I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

Deanna Raybourn

#14. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

Carla Bley

#15. Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#16. I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Madonna

#17. This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

Bill Maher

#18. The action comes at us through a buzz of nattering remarks.

David Denby

#19. Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

Tim Berners-Lee

#20. Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#21. Sitting there most of the night," she said, "I had a crazy kind of image. Do you think two sick twisted 'trees ever made bonsai out of one another?

Theodore Sturgeon