Quotes related to 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
- Leonard Ravenhill
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
- Dorothy Day
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
- Anne Lamott
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
- Harold S. Kushner
Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.
- Hannah Hurnard
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- E Stanley Jones
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
- Paulo Coelho
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
- Billy Sunday
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
- Charles Spurgeon
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks