Quotes on Prayer! IIX

 II Timothy 2:1; You therefore, my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Kahlil Gibran

You shall find this to be God’s usual course: not to give His children the taste of His delights till they begin to perspire in seeking after them.

Richard Baxter

In ways too innumerable to mention does the Lord work out everything according to His own will. He is never disdain to His people’s needs, He will never disdain their cries for help, but in every hour of need He is on hand to bless.

H. A. Ironside

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

Prayer is ordained to this end that we should confess our sins, our needs to God, and bare our hearts to Him, as children lay their troubles in full confidence before their parents.

John Calvin

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

Mother Teresa

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

Perseverance is not resignation, putting up with things the way they are, staying in the same old rut year after year, or being a doormat for people to wipe their feet on. Endurance is not a desperate hanging on but a traveling from strength to strength.

Eugene Peterson

Those who know [God] as Father, who sense His love and concern for us, come daily, not only asking in humility for our bread but deeply grateful for the food already supplied.

W.  Phillip Keller

I have often wished I was a more decent man … Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would my whole reliance upon God.

Abraham Lincoln

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