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Prayer

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We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God’s reluctance, but as a laying hold of His highest willingness.
— Richard Trench

When we ask for God’s help only in the major decisions, we are admitting Him into a very small part of our lives.
— Catherine Marshall

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie ten Boom

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
— Leonard Ravenhill

The example that my father set in the home mirrored his own spiritual values. We never started the day without Bible reading and a short time of prayer. We never ended the day without Bible reading and a time of prayer. We always prayed on our knees as a family.
— Franklin Graham

The Power of a Plan

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Your future is a direct derivative of the plans you place in motion today.
— T.D. Jakes

We honor God when we think big, when we pray big, when we plan big.
— Bill Bright

Once you have written your plan, read it aloud to yourself at least once every day. This fuels your obsession and reinforces its nature in your mind.
— Napoleon Hill

Those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.
— Proverbs 14:22

Every plan may not be flawless and may require adjustments as you go along, but even the weakest plan forces the planner to prepare. And when you prepare you will be better able to handle the inevitable and unforeseeable bumps on the road toward your goal.
— T.D. Jakes

How to Pray

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Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.
— Phillips Brooks

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
— Matthew 21:22

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
— Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice in response to mine is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
— Andrew Murray

God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic of your prayers, to see how many they are; nor yet at the music of your prayers, nor yet at the sweetness of your voice, nor yet at the logic of your prayers; but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are.
— Thomas Brooks

The Power of Prayer

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No one accomplishes so much in so little time as when he or she is praying.
— A.E. McAdam

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
— John 15:7

In prayer you align yourselves to the purpose and power of God and He is able to do things through you that He couldn’t do otherwise.
— E. Stanley Jones

God has decreed to act in response to prayer. “Ask,” He commands us. And Satan trembles for fear we will.
— Ruth Bell Graham

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
— Jack Dempsey

The Importance of Prayer

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A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.
— Janette Oke

Everything in God’s store is on the bottom shelf – you have to get on your knees to get it.
— Robert Collier

Prayer is an excellent means of keeping up an acquaintance with God and of growing in the knowledge of God.
— Jonathan Edwards

Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.
— Billy Graham

God didn’t ask me to give up football or my ambition to be the best coach in the business, but to bring Him into my life, including football. I begin each day now with a person-to-person effort to contact Him.
— Tom Landry

Prayer

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Prayer is asking for rain; faith is carrying the umbrella.
— Sir John Mason

There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.
— O.J. Simon

Talk it over with the Father, then leave the outcome to His wisdom.
— Catherine Marshall

Prayer: A declaration of dependence.
— Anonymous

It is not faith in the amount of praying we do, faith in our ability to pray long, beautiful and scripturally accurate prayers, or even faith in the prayers themselves. It is faith in God – faith in who He is and faith that He rewards His children who seek Him in prayer.
— Evelyn Christensen

How to Pray

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When we pray, it is far more important to pray with a sense of the greatness of God than with a sense of the greatness of the problem.
— Evangeline Blood

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but wings.
— Phillips Brooks

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
— 2 Chronicles 7:14

Only that prayer which comes from our heart can get to God’s heart.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Reading a book about prayer, listening to lectures and talking about it is very good, but it won’t teach you to pray. You get nothing without exercise, without practice. I might listen for a year to a professor of music playing the most beautiful music, but that won’t teach me to play an instrument.
— Andrew Murray