Dwight L. Moody - Prayer Quotes

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A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Dwight L. Moody
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.

Dwight L. Moody
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 firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

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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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If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

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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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Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

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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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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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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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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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