Top 80 Quotes About Intercession
#1. Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
Thomas Aquinas
#2. I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I
Anne Bronte
#3. Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.
Paul Billheimer
#4. Once again. It is only love that can fit us for the work of intercession.
Andrew Murray
#5. All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
John Henry Jowett
#6. Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
George Arthur Buttrick
#7. Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.
Saint John Chrysostom
#8. No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
Robert E.Lee
#9. God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
Thomas Brooks
#10. The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).
Samuel Chadwick
#11. We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.
R.C. Sproul
#12. The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formally made with freedom and facility; for now the Spirit maketh intercession for it according to the will of God ("with sighs too deep for words" - Romans 8:26-27).
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#13. I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
Oswald Chambers
#15. Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.
Regina Doman
#16. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN
Mike Bickle
#17. 25Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost [2] k those who draw near to God l through him, since he always lives m to make intercession for them.
Anonymous
#18. It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.
Henry Parry Liddon
#19. thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.
Philip Kerr
#20. Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#21. Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.
Ellen G. White
#22. Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.
Mother Teresa
#23. God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#24. It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.
Saint John Chrysostom
#25. It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others.
Oswald Chambers
#26. The only way to destroy iniquity in your country is intercession
Sunday Adelaja
#27. God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
S.D. Gordon
#28. In his life Christ is an example showing
us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
Martin Luther
#29. We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
Austin Phelps
#30. Godliness rests in submission to the Almighty's will, not in intercession that seeks to change that will.
D. A. Carson
#31. Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie Ten Boom
#32. Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective
Oswald Chambers
#33. 9 Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#34. Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
John Calvin
#35. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
Charles Brent
#36. This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
John Newton
#37. We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
Anne M. Chappel
#38. Intercession is not a job--it's a passion. It's a stethoscope to the heart of God. --Alice Smith
Sandra Chambers
#39. If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.
John Mott
#40. Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
Oswald Chambers
#41. Scriptures reveal that two acts occur continually before the throne of God - intercession and accusation. The conflict between these two is a focal point of the battle between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.
Rick Joyner
#42. Intercession is speaking and singing God's heart back to Him. He has made His plans and purposes known to us in His Word. We are to discern His will and call it forth in faith and partnership with Him, and He answers by stretching out His hand in authority.
Anna Blanc
#43. Intercession is prayer we pray not for ourselves, but for others - for country government, or any other person
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
#45. Our intercession prayers make God's mercy to triumph against judgment
Sunday Adelaja
#46. 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
#47. Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.
David Shibley
#48. Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
Oswald Chambers
#49. There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.
Alphonsus Liguori
#50. Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
Oswald Chambers
#51. That even under the gospel of peace and reconciliation by Christ (of which the intercession of Moses was typical) the moral law should continue to bind believers.
Matthew Henry
#52. Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.
Alexander MacLaren
#53. Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.
Alphonsus Liguori
#54. Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.
Richard J. Foster
#57. Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#62. It is through prayer that we destroy the kingdom of Darkness and enforce the judgment written that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail - Prayer Moves God, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams
Archbishop Duncan-Williams
#63. We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#65. If I can bring Him nothing but my tears, He will put them with His own tears in His own bottle for He once wept; if I can bring Christ nothing but my groans and sighs, He will accept these as an acceptable sacrifice, for He once was broken in heart, and sighed heavily in spirit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before Him
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#69. Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#70. Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
J.C. Ryle
#71. We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#73. An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.
Donna Lynn Hope
#74. My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.
Megan McKenna
#76. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.
Thomas Lye
#77. The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
Karl Barth
#79. If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
