Intercessory Quotes

#1. The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.

David A. Bednar

#2. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

Oswald Chambers

#3. Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

C.H.SPURGEON

#4. In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

Douglas V. Steere

#5. The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer. Wherever God puts you in circumstances, pray immediately, pray that His Atonement may be realised in other lives as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now; pray for those with whom you come in contact now.

Oswald Chambers

#6. As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no power on earth that can keep intercession out.

Richard Halverson

#9. The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

John Mott

#10. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.

Dick Eastman

#11. As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5

Alexander Strauch

#12. Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ.

Monica Johnson

#13. Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Charles Bent

#14. Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Alexander Whyte

#15. Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

Monica Johnson

#16. Stop yelling. If everyone's yelling, no one can be heard.

Jennifer Donnelly

#17. I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat

#18. Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly

Glen Duncan

#19. To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#20. It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

Richard Dawkins

#21. Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. You should think with your heart,' said her mother.
'My heart?' whispered Ophelia.
'Your heart,' said her mother, and she touched Ophelia's chest with the tip of her finger. It was the tiniest of touches, but a warmth and new hope spread through Ophelia's body. She began to smile.

Karen Foxlee

#23. So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#24. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

Sun Tzu

#25. Tengo had no idea, of course, what Aomame had offered to the mood that time, but he could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Oh, I was so damn close to feeding him his own dick.

Karina Halle

#27. The warrior of the night intercedes for the people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Our intercession prayers make God's mercy to triumph against judgment

Sunday Adelaja

#29. I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Anatoli Boukreev

#30. I don't take life so seriously ... I can just play with life.

Eric Cantona

#31. For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Wim Wenders

#32. Intercession is not a job--it's a passion. It's a stethoscope to the heart of God. --Alice Smith

Sandra Chambers

#33. I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

Simon Callow

#34. We are the only people who may know the will of God for the city we live in. God expects us to become intercessors for our countries

Sunday Adelaja