True Intercession Quotes

#1. All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

John Henry Jowett

#2. The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#4. Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

Philip Yancey

#5. Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends ... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Jane Yolen

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I thought I'd be helping the world, not ignoring it.

Marina Keegan

#9. I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

Cynthia Ozick