Prayer Quotes - Page 79

The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?

Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

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

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.