Dwight L. Moody Quotes About Prayer
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How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
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How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.
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The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
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Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.
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Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.
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Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
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In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
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I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
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Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
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Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
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He who kneels the most, stands the best.
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There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.
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We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
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Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
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My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.
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The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.
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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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I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.
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Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal-a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
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A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
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Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
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Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.
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Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
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