Rigour Prayer Quotes

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. ~ Theodor Adorno

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ~ Charles Lamb

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. ~ Lionel Messi

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ~ Andre Weil

…be awake to the Life
that is loving you and
sing your prayer, laugh your prayer,
dance your prayer, run
and weep and sweat your prayer,
sleep your prayer, eat your prayer,
paint, sculpt, hammer, and read your prayer,
sweep, dig, rake, drive and hoe your prayer,
garden and farm and build and clean your prayer,
wash, iron, vacuum, sew, embroider and pickle your prayer,
compute, touch, bend and fold but never delete
or mutilate your prayer.

Learn and play your prayer,
work and rest your prayer,
fast and feast your prayer,
argue, talk, whisper, listen and shout your prayer,
groan and moan and spit and sneeze your prayer,
swim and hunt and cook your prayer,
digest and become your prayer,
release and recover your prayer,
breathe your prayer,
be your prayer ~ Alla Renée Bozarth

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees. ~ William Cowper

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. ~ Edward Gibbon

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art. ~ Julian Coolidge

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. ~ William Carey

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length ~ Charles Spurgeon

that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without ~ J.C. Ryle

Prayer is receiving by faith what God has already done! ~ Andrew Wommack

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy. ~ Jared Brock

As you come close to God in prayer, He brings purpose even from the brokenness of your life. ~ Sue Detweiler

Fasting turns each moment of craving into a prayer of intense dependence. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. ~ John Bunyan

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing. ~ Mark Blaug

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof. ~ David Hilbert

When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about "it" (prayer) but are infectious about "Him ~ Daniel Henderson

Receptive prayer is one of the most powerful weapons against spiritual u-turns. ~ Glenn C. Stewart

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer ... prayer ... prayer. ~ Billy Graham

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails. ~ Watchman Nee

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

You do need prayer, more than you know, ' Carita said softly. 'Prayer is the keynote. Prayer isn't the preparation to accomplish the purposes of Adon Olam. It is the accomplishment of His purposes. Great works are done through prayer. ~ Erika Mathews

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality. ~ Charles Grandison Finney

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer. ~ Francis Chan

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten. ~ Mark Link

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. ~ John Wesley

PRAYER
Prayer instilled with intense feeling gets answered immediately. Your actions are the outcome of your prayer. ~ Sirshree

Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view. ~ Kiran Nagarkar

The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons ~ Sunday Adelaja

A passionate prayer with a burning desire, pushed from within, Hannah kind of prayer, that you are lost in the moment of praying is the prayer that opens heavens. ~ ANIKOR Daniel

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain. ~ David Brazzeal

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ~ Martin Luther

Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life. ~ Teresa Hampton

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. ~ John G. Lake

Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself. ~ R.C. Sproul

Fasting is an act of humility that spotlights our weaknesses and reveals dependence on things rather than on God. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

Man ... need not stand alone. Prayer will open doors; prayer will remove barriers; prayer will ease pressures; prayer will give inner peace and comfort during times of strain and stress and difficulty. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure. ~ Peace Pilgrim

The power of prayer is priceless.
Great things can be accomplished by prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. ~ Peter Forsyth

Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe. ~ Robin Bertram

Prayer becomes religious when you try use it for something God never intended. ~ Andrew Wommack

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended. ~ Alexander Whyte

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. ~ John Calvin

If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer. ~ Leslie Ludy

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin. ~ Alexander Whyte

Whether prayer changes our situation or not, one thing is certain: Prayer will change us! ~ Billy Graham

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him. ~ K.P. Yohannan

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all. ~ John Climacus

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity ... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue, ... a conversation with God. ~ Henri Nouwen

Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire. ~ Olivier Clement

Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference. ~ Myles Munroe

God will do nothing but in answer to prayer. ~ John Wesley

Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable. ~ Lauren F. Winner

Virtues are formed by prayer.
Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.
Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. ~ St. Ephrem Of Syria

Prayer is a lifestyle. ~ Paul Brady

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. ~ Tilden Edwards

Intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force. ~ Samuel Chadwick

Prayer is an act of worship to God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive. ~ Zeina Glo In Beauty Cravings Prayer

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. ~ S.D. Gordon

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey! ~ Dorothy Day

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer. ~ Pope Francis

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced. ~ David Bryant

Prayer and action ... can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. ~ Henri Nouwen

Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall. ~ J.C. Ryle

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. ~ Hannah More

With the grace of prayer, we shall prevail. ~ Lailah Gifty, Akita

Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. ~ Ole Hallesby

Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ. ~ Jared Brock

If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits. ~ Billy Graham

Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer. ~ Billy Graham

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down. ~ John Wesley

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's easier to be close to God during prayer time when you're close to God all the time. ~ Jared Brock

The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation. ~ Daniel Henderson

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. ~ Vance Havner

Prayer can never be in excess. ~ Charles Spurgeon

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it. ~ K.P. Yohannan

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you. ~ Andy Murray

Fasting is more about replacing than it is about abstaining - replacing normal activities with focused times of prayer and feeding on the Word of God. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. ~ Oswald Chambers

Francis's all-night prayer, "Who are you, O God, and who am I?" is probably a perfect prayer, because it is the most honest prayer we can offer. ~ Richard Rohr

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer. ~ Francois Fenelon

Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life's more pressing duties benevolently grant us a moment of reprieve are nothing of prayer. Real prayer is first realizing the fact that prayer 'is' the pressing duty. And second, that real prayer is doggedly pushing everything else aside to deliberately act on that fact. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Charles Spurgeon

God hears and answers every prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. ~ R.A. Torrey

Do not turn to prayer only in times of grief, suffering and rage. Make prayer a habit whether you are blissful or sorrowful, serene or upset, clear or confused. ~ Pooja Ruprell

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? ~ Jim Cymbala

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. ~ Richard Alleine

If the only prayer you said is 'The Lord's Prayer'; it is enough. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer. ~ Larry Crabb