Top 100 When We Pray Quotes
#1. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#2. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#3. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#4. Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
Dillon Burroughs
#5. When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.
Chris Oyakhilome
#6. I pray for bravery and guts, for honesty and discernment. I know you have a lot to lose - we all do when we lay down our certainties and our black-and-white thinking.
Sarah Bessey
#7. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
A.C. Dixon
#8. When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.
James Bryan Smith
#9. When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Alexis Carrel
#10. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.
Douglas Wood
#11. When we pray for guidance in a group, we create a positive force field and align our personal energies towards a single direction.
Catherine Carrigan
#12. We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.
Loren Cunningham
#13. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#14. So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.
Oswald Chambers
#15. When our fears and anxiety prevent sleep, we can pray instead of scanning Google. We can ask for guidance from the Lord when we are confronted with possible problems. He is faithful to answer and grant peace for the night. Father,
Sandra Peoples
#16. I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
Dwight L. Moody
#17. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.
John Piper
#18. I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else ... and I will pray for you.
Gloria Gaynor
#19. It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray ... The important thing is not the position of the body but the condition of the soul.
Billy Graham
#20. Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.
Mahesh Babu
#21. Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.
Jacob Peterson
#22. I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty ... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
David Jeremiah
#23. When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.
Chris Oyakhilome
#24. What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
John Flavel
#25. When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes.
Sabine Shah
#26. Faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.
Joan D. Chittister
#27. This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When
Anne Lamott
#28. If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.
Thomas Watson
#29. Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.
Robert H. Jackson
#30. If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through.
A.W. Tozer
#31. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#32. Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves ... But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?
John Steakley
#33. When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
Ole Hallesby
#34. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).
Peter Kreeft
#35. When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
Ole Hallesby
#36. When we pray we should ask the Lord to reveal His will to us and then pray accordingly, act obediently and wait patiently.
Betty Malz
#37. If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.
Louie Giglio
#38. When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.
Mark Batterson
#39. I wanted my sons to know that, whatever kinds of prayers we utter, not matter how wretched, God hears them, even when we pray badly.
Wendy Murray
#40. When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
Austin O'Malley
#41. When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.
Judson Cornwall
#42. It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
David Jeremiah
#43. We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
Ole Hallesby
#44. It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
Ole Hallesby
#45. And that's the core of prayer: admitting that just maybe, there's something going on that we can't see. So when I'm afraid, I pray, and I ask for God's help, that I will be able to see something I wasn't able to see before, or at least trust him to do the seeing.
Shauna Niequist
#46. When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
Iyanla Vanzant
#47. As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.
Barbara Wentroble
#48. There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.
Richard Matheson
#49. The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.
Jen Pollock Michel
#50. I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi
#51. With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
Henry B. Eyring
#52. When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.
Sri Chinmoy
#53. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
Hudson Taylor
#54. Good Things Never Stay ..
This what People Say..
So,When I met you I knew That Oneday ,
You Will just Go Away !
STILL ... I'll pray & pray
That we walk The Same WAY ( :
Mohammed Abdel-Mohsen
#55. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
J. Edwin Orr
#56. We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.
Johanna Spyri
#57. When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
#59. And when we feel forsaken, hopeless, and in despair, we pray to one who walked this path before us.
Adam Hamilton
#60. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Brother Andrew
#61. How can you keep your mind from wandering when you pray? Remember what you are doing: talking to God. If you had the opportunity to talk with the president, I doubt if your mind would wander. [We] have the privilege of talking to someone far greater: the King of kings!
Billy Graham
#62. We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
Andrea Gibson
#63. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.
Philip Gulley
#64. If He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely
surely He will lend an ear!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#65. We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.
Madeleine L'Engle
#66. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan.
Elizabeth George
#68. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own
Heather Choate Davis
#69. One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me.
Riccardo Tisci
#70. It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
#71. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
Lev Grossman
#72. When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
Mark Batterson
#73. Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.
John Of Kronstadt
#74. When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
Dallas Willard
#75. When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men,
Thomas S. Monson
#76. For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know if it is true. When we have done that, we can testify from personal experience to our friends that they can make that choice and know the same truth.
Henry B. Eyring
#77. Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.
Franklin Graham
#78. So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.
Vincent De Paul
#79. The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Josh Billings
#80. I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
#81. When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard.
John Assaraf
#82. It's fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.
David Jeremiah
#83. We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
#84. We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.
Esther Smith
#85. We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.
Daniel Henderson
#86. We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray
Jewel
#87. Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.
Jim Cymbala
#88. Those who will not learn
in plenty to keep their place
must learn it by their need
when they have had their way
and the fields spurn their seed.
We have failed Thy grace.
Lord, I flinch and pray,
send Thy necessity.
"We Who Prayed and Wept", p. 211.
Wendell Berry
#89. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
Peter Kreeft
#90. He passed out in my arms. I don't know how long we stayed like that with my hands tangled in his knotted hair like I was trying to pray. I couldn't tell if I was sleeping; it was so dark, I thought my eyes were closed even when they were open.
Raziel Reid
#91. Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace - we receive it.
Jared Brock
#92. When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
#93. When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.
Judah Smith
#94. When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?
Oswald Chambers
#96. When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
Cyprian
#97. When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andy Murray
#98. Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.
Stormie O'martian
#99. It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller
#100. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.
Keith L. Moore
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