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Prayer Quote of the Month: 19 Jan.-Dec. 2010 |
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 January 2010 "You should, in Tertullian’s phrase, with a holy conspiracy, besiege heaven." -Thomas Manton February 2010 "Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, "I do not need God today." -Ben Jennings March 2010 "Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone." -Robert Foster April 2010 Prayer should not be regarded "as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty." -E.M. Bounds May 2010 "You cannot learn to see just because someone tells you to do so. You require your own natural power of sight. In the same way, you cannot discover from the teachings of others the beauty of prayer. Prayer has its own teacher in God, Who 'teaches us knowledge' (Psalm 93:10) and grants prayer to those who pray and blesses the years of the just." -John Climacus June 2010 "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go." -Abraham Lincoln July 2010 "We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another." -William Law December 2010 "Psalmody gives its rhythm to the life of the monk and each of the faithfull ought to practice it to some extent." -Olivier Clement ("Psalmody" refers to praying the Psalms daily.) January 2011 "And therefore we have to be outside the hour of prayer what we want to be when we are praying. For the mind at the time of its prayer is necessarily formed by what went on previously, and when it is praying it is either raised to the heavens or brought low to the earth by the thoughts on which it was dwelling before it prayed." -John Cassian (4th Century) February 2011"When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." -Corrie Ten Boom March 2011 "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 April 2011 "The one who truly prays is a theologian, and the true theologian is one who truly prays." -Monk Evagrius of Pontus (4th Century) May 2011 "A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer." -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing October 2011 "In this way is he (the true Christian) always pure for prayer. He also prays in the society of angels...and though he pray alone, he has the choir of the saints standing with him (in prayer)." -Clement of Alexandria ("Miscellanies" 7:12 - A.D. 208) November
2011 "You can set
up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is
fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or
sitting at your handicraft." December
2011 "All our life is a
celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always
everywhere. We sing while we work, we sing hymns while we sail, we pray
while we carry out all life's other occupations." ___________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2010 S.G.P. All rights reserved. Next Next Topic Prayer Quote Index
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