Quotes about Intercession
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.
- CS Lewis
If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.
- Joel Osteen
That we should not pray to the glorious Virgyn Marie, butt to God only.
- John Knox
The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.
- Mark Batterson
I think we have to realize that God sometimes gives us more time to pray, and when he does this, we can pray that he will bless those who have opportunities to speak to others.
- Mark Dever
The main point of a prayer meeting is not to move God but to allow God to move us. The Bible says we Christians grieve, quench, and resist the Holy Spirit.[97] So, we pray to repent of our sin against him and align our will with his. The Spirit is always available to us, and in prayer we make ourselves available to him.
- Mark Driscoll
None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.
- John Ortberg
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
- John Piper
Therefore we should pray for each other the way Jesus prays for us in John 17:17-- "Sanctify them in the truth; thy Word is truth.
- John Piper
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
- John Wesley
Even now He is praying for them.
- Ellen White
Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us... Let us contemplate the glorious hope that is set before us, and by faith lay hold upon it.
- Ellen White