quotations about prayer
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
ROBERT HERRICK
Hesperides
When the gods would make us mad, they answer our prayers.
DAVID MAMET
Speed-the-Plow
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship.
ANGIE HARMON
Good Housekeeping, July 2011
The first thing we are told about prayer is that it is simply a conversation with God. We are not talking at God, but talking to him. Prayer is how we speak to God, and his Word is how he speaks to us. All too often my prayer life devolves into me just firing off my requests and then going to my spiritual shopping cart, hitting ‘place order,’ and expecting an answer to be delivered in the time I specify.
BRAD RINE
"Is Your Prayer Life Like Your Amazon Shopping Cart", The Bible Chapel, June 19, 2018
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
PHILIP YANCEY
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky--up--up--up--into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables