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“Life is fragile, handle with
Prayer”
"God grant me the serenity to
accept things I cannot change,
courage to change things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr (American Theologian)
“To be a Christian without
prayer is no more
possible than to be alive without breathing.”
Martin Luther
“If Christians spent as much
time praying as they do grumbling,
they would soon have nothing to grumble about.”
Anonymous
“I have been driven many times
to my knees by the overwhelming
conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom,
and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Prayer is the rope that pulls
God and man together. But, it
doesn’t pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.”
Billy Graham
“Every Christian needs a
half-hour of prayer each day,
except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.”
Francis de Sales
“Don’t pray when you feel like
it. Have an
appointment with the Lord and keep it.”
Corrie Ten Boom
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“We should spend as much time in
thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.” – Vencent de
Paul, Roman Catholic priest and spiritual writer.
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“Is prayer your steering wheel or
your spare tire?” – Corrie Ten Boom, devotional writer.
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“Never make the blunder of trying
to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.” – Oswald Chambers,
English devotional writer.
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“Many a person is praying for
rain with his tub the wrong side up.” – Sam Jones, American revivalist.
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Robert Murray McCheyne (Scottish
Evangelical Pastor) said, “God will either give you what you ask, or
something far better.”
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“God never ceases to speak to us,
but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within
bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him (Francois Fenelon, Franch
mystical theologian).”
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“Whether we like it or not,
asking is the rule of the kingdom” – Charles Spurgeon, Baptist revivalist
preacher.
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“In prayer we shift the center of
living from self-consciousness to self-surrender” – Abraham Joshua Heschel,
American Jewish Theologian.
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“Prayer is naught but a rising
desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly
thoughts.” – Walter Hilton, English mystic.
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“He who has learned to pray has
learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.” –
William Law, Anglican author.
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“There is not in the world a kind
of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with
God.” – Brother Lawrence, author of Practicing the Presence of God.
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John Owen (Puritan Theologian)
said, “He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.”
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Norman Vincent Peale, “Today any
successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested
methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are
discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer
power.”
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Oswald Chambers said, “Ask God
for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right
thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things. “Your
Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.” Then, why
ask? That you may get to know Him.”
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Martin Luther said, “What are the
things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles…The greatest
trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can
become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.”
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Elton Trueblood (Quaker
Philosopher) said, “At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about
God but with Him.”
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D. L. Moody (19th
Century Evangelist) said, “Sometimes when your child talks, your friends
cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if
our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.”
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D. L. Moody (19th
Century Evangelist) said, “After we have made our requests known to Him, our
language should be, “Thy will be done.” I would a thousand times rather
that Gods’ will should be done than my own.”
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Samuel Chadwick (Puritan
preacher) said, “Hurry is the death of Prayer.”
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Merlin R. Carothers (author of
“Prison to Praise”) said, “The very act of praise releases the power of God
into a set of circumstances and enables God to change them if this is His
design… I have come to believe that the prayer of praise is the highest
form of communication with God, and one that always releases a great deal of
power into our lives.”
● E.M.
Bounds said, “if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by
believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.”
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Pope John Paul 2 said, “We can
pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at
one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray
perfectly.”
● John
Wesley said, “God does nothing except in answer to Prayer.”
● Carl
Barth said, “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising
against the disorder of the world.”
● John
Maxwell said, “Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been
because of Prayer”
● The
fatalist or non-believer says, “what will be, will be.”
● Larry
Lea says, “It is important that we know and hear God’s voice, for the words
of God reveal the will of God.”
● C.S.
Lewis said, “Lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
● Walter
Wink said, “History belongs to the intercessors”
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Charles Finney said, “Prayer meetings are the most difficult meetings to
sustain because they are the most spiritual meetings of the church.”
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Charles Finney said, “Unless the leader is especially prepared, the prayer
meetings will dwindle.”
● Henry
Ward Beecher said, “Whoever can take a church and develop in it a good
prayer meeting, carry it on through years and still have it fruitful,
various, spiritual -- he is a General.”
● W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet "Pray as though everything depended on
God. Work as though everything depended on you."
● John Bunyan
1628-1688, British Author "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words
without a heart."
● Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die
tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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George Herbert
1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet "Prayer
should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."
● The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the
strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of
public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people
of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA
● All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my
mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all
my life.
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
● All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will
certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
● More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
● When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward
him.
Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
● Dale Carnegie was
asked, “what is the secret of your life?” Dale Carnegie replied, “Every day
I pray. I yield myself to God, the tensions and anxieties go out of me and
peace and power come in.
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Woodrow Wilson said,
"I pray God I may be
given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this
great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and
guide me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count
upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the
unity of America—an America united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision
of duty, of opportunity and of service."
We thank
“Paul Flatt” for submitting -
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Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale “When you are in an upsetting
situation, pray for everyone involved. Pray hard and be open to the power of
God." Prayer is a gift that blesses you and those for whom you pray and it
is something that can be done at any time, in any place, whenever you have a
moment to give.
Thanks
to “Tom Cain” for sending this to us
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